I Love to Tell the Story
𝄞: G  🕑: 4/4  CCLI: 29413  🖉 Arabella Catherine Hankey, William Gustavus Fischer  © 1866, 1869 Public Domain  

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I love to tell the story of unseen things above
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Of Jesus and His glory,   of Jesus and His love
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I love to tell the story,   because I know 'tis true
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It satisfies my longings, as nothing else can do

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I love to tell the sto-  ry! 'Twill be my theme in glory
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To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love

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I love to tell the story, 'Tis pleasant to repeat
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What seems each time I tell it,   more wonderfully sweet
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I love to tell the story,   for some have never heard
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The message of salvation from God's own ho-  ly  Word

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I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
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Seem hungering and thirsting, to hear it like the rest
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And when in scenes of  glory,   I sing the new, new song
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'Twill be the old, old story, that I have loved so  long

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I love to tell the story, more wonderful it seems
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Than all the golden fan-cies, of all our golden dreams
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I love to tell the story,   it did so much for me
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And that is just the reason I tell it now  to  thee
