#19 - I Love to tell The Story

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• Composer:
  • William Gustavus Fischer (1835-1912), 1869
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• Incipit: 515513211162165521232113533212
• Condensed Incipit: 515132162165212321353212
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• Lyrics:
  I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
  Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love.
  I love to tell the story, because I know 'tis true;
  It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.
  
  chorus:
  I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory,
  To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.
  
  I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems
  Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams.
  I love to tell the story, it did so much for me;
  And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.
  
  I love to tell the story; 'tis pleasant to repeat
  What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet.
  I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
  The message of salvation from God's own holy Word.
  
  I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
  Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.
  And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,
  'Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.
  
  
  • Arabella Katherine Hankey (1834-1911), 1867