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My Jesus, I Love Thee


Words by William R. Featherston (1846-1873), 1864
Tune: GIPSY or GYPSY, by Rodney (Gipsy) Smith (1860-1947), 1927.
Key signature: G major (1 sharp)
Time signature: 3/4
Meter: 11.11.11.8.D.
Source: #124 in "Wonderful Jesus and Other Songs: Used Exclusively in the Gipsy Smith Campaigns" compiled by Gipsy Smith (1927). Romany Publishing Co.
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1. My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine; For Thee all the pleasures of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou; If ever I loved Thee, ’tis now. I love Thee because Thou has first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree. I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow; If ever I loved Thee, ’tis now.
2. In mansions of glory and endless delight, I’ll ever adore Thee and dwell in Thy sight; I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow, “If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.” I will love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death, And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath; And say when the deathdew lies cold on my brow, If ever I loved Thee, ’tis now.