I Love to Tell the Story

𝄞: F 🕑: 4/4 CCLI: 29413 url 🖉 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