What Are They Doing In Heaven Today Lyrics - Be Good Tanyas

What Are They Doing In Heaven Today 

(trad.) 

I'm thinking today of friends that I used to know 

Who lived and suffered in this world below 

They're gone off to heaven, but I want to know 

What are they doing there now? 

Oh, what are they doing in heaven today 

Where sin and sorrow have all gone away 

Peace abounds like a river they say 

Oh, what are they doing there now? 

There's some whose hearts were burdened with care 

They spent for their moment with fighting and tears 

But they clung to the cross in trembling and fear 

Oh, what are they doing there now? 

(chorus) 

There's some who were poor and often despised 

They looked up toward heaven with tear-blinded eyes 

While people were heedless and deaf to their cries 

Oh, what are they doing there now? 

(chorus)