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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus / Nearer My God To Thee

Words & Music by Lemmel, Clarke, Fuller, Adams, Mason

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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus / Nearer My God To Thee

Words & Music by Lemmel, Clarke, Fuller, Adams, Mason

If you mm mm
And all the world go free
Know there's a cross for everyone
And there's a cross for me
Turn your eyes upon Jesus (Dialogue "What's the words?)
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things, the things of earth
Will grow strangely dim
In the light of his wonderful face

Nearer my God thee
Nearer to thee
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer to thee

I was, I was singing bass but he covered me out man
He, he wiped me out
I know how you feel Rich
(Laughter, "Bad feeling isn't it?"
That's tough, you'd be surprised, it's hard enough to do that!)

Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer to thee

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain:
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God to Thee.

Refrain

There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I'll fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

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This hymn, by Helen Lemmel, was first published in 1918 in the form of a pamphlet in London, England. Four years later, it was included in a collection titled Glad Songs, a book containing sixty-seven songs by Mrs. Lemmel. This hymn became especially popular that same year at the Keswick Bible Conference in northern England, where it was first introduced. It first appeared in the United States in 1924, in a song collection called Gospel Truth in Song, published by Harry Clarke in Chicago, Illinois. Since that time, the song has been included in most evangelical hymnals and has been translated into many languages around the world.

Elvis sings an excerpt of this hymn, together with Nearer My God to Thee, in a jam session that was captured on March 31, 1972, with J.D. Sumner and The Stamps Quartet, which was released for the first time in 1994, Amazing Grace - His Greatest Sacred Perfomances.

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If you mm mm
And all the world go free
Know there's a cross for everyone
And there's a cross for me
Turn your eyes upon Jesus (Dialogue "What's the words?)
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things, the things of earth
Will grow strangely dim
In the light of his wonderful face

Nearer my God thee
Nearer to thee
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer to thee

I was, I was singing bass but he covered me out man
He, he wiped me out
I know how you feel Rich
(Laughter, "Bad feeling isn't it?"
That's tough, you'd be surprised, it's hard enough to do that!)

Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer my God to thee
Nearer to thee

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain:
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God to Thee.

Refrain

There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I'll fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain


This hymn, by Helen Lemmel, was first published in 1918 in the form of a pamphlet in London, England. Four years later, it was included in a collection titled Glad Songs, a book containing sixty-seven songs by Mrs. Lemmel. This hymn became especially popular that same year at the Keswick Bible Conference in northern England, where it was first introduced. It first appeared in the United States in 1924, in a song collection called Gospel Truth in Song, published by Harry Clarke in Chicago, Illinois. Since that time, the song has been included in most evangelical hymnals and has been translated into many languages around the world.

Elvis sings an excerpt of this hymn, together with Nearer My God to Thee, in a jam session that was captured on March 31, 1972, with J.D. Sumner and The Stamps Quartet, which was released for the first time in 1994, Amazing Grace - His Greatest Sacred Perfomances.