Where the Rose Never Fades

Where the Roses Never Fade
Music by Robert Metzgar
Words by Janie West Metzgar, 1929

I am going to a city,
Where the streets with gold are laid;
Where the tree of life is blooming
And the roses never fade.
 

Chorus:
Here they bloom but for a season
Soon their beauty is decayed.
I am going to a city,
Where the roses never fade.
In this world we have our troubles,
Satan snares we must evade.
We'll be free from all temptations;
Where the roses never fade.

Chorus:
Here they bloom but for a season
Soon their beauty is decayed.
I am going to a city,
Where the roses never fade.
Loved ones gone to be with Jesus,
In their robes of white arrayed;
Now are waiting for my coming,
Where the roses never fade.

Chorus:
Here they bloom but for a season
Soon their beauty is decayed.
I am going to a city,
Where the roses never fade.

Cathedral Quartet

Formed in 1964, this traditional Southern gospel vocal group (also known as the Cathedral Quartet) appeared

regularly on Rex Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow broadcast in the '60s.
The Cathedral Quartet appeared on Humbard's show until 1969 and then set out on their own, traveling from gig

to gig in a converted egg truck until they could afford real tour buses. Over the next decade, the group became one

of the most popular Southern gospel groups around. In 1977, they won their first Grammy for Best Gospel Performance, and duplicated the feat in 1978, 1979, and 1982 as well. In 1977.

They also won Dove Awards for Male Group of the Year and Best Southern Gospel Album (for Then...And Now)

 by the Gospel Music Association. In 1979, Koker and Clark left the group, beginning a long stream of replacements;

Roger Bennett also joined up at this point.
During the '70s and '80s, the Cathedrals had a long stream of number one gospel hits that included "Step Into the

Water," "Can He, Could He, Would He," and "I've Just Started Living." From 1986 through 1990, the Cathedrals

were featured at Bill Gaither's Praise Gathering for Believers, and continued to garner numerous awards from the

 GMA.

In 1988, they became the first Southern gospel group to record in England with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

for the album Symphony of Praise. In 1989, the group's 25th anniversary, the Gospel Music Voice named them Group

of the Year, and Cash Box named Goin' in Style Southern Gospel Album of the Year.

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