Carry Me the Rest of the Way - A Grandmother and Grandfather’s Prayer on the Front Porch

A grandmother, a grandfather, a guitar, and a mandolin on the front porch — one take, no polish, just two weathered voices singing about the Arms that never drop a sleeper. "Carry Me the Rest of the Way" follows the carrying through a lifetime: a daddy lifting his sleeping boy from the truck seat after the county fair, that boy grown gray and carrying his own father toward home, and finally the prayer we all come to — Carry me, Jesus, when I fall. "And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you." — Isaiah 46:4 Words & Music: Eddie Lee Simon © 2026 Eddie Lee Simon. All rights reserved. If this song carried you somewhere, share it with someone who needs carrying too — and subscribe for more original and timeless sacred songs from the Eddie Lee Simon Songbook.