Introduction
Words: William C. Martin, 1910. This song was a favorite of Homer Rodeheaver, who devoted an entire chapter to it in his 1917 Song Stories of the Sawdust Trail.
Music: Charles H. Gabriel (🔊 pdf nwc).
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 6:26
Words: William C. Martin, 1910. This song was a favorite of Homer Rodeheaver, who devoted an entire chapter to it in his 1917 Song Stories of the Sawdust Trail.
Music: Charles H. Gabriel (🔊 pdf nwc).
I trust in God wherever I may be,
Upon the land, or on the rolling sea,
For come what may, from day to day,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
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I trust in God, I know He cares for me;
On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;
Tho’ billows roll, He keeps my soul;
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
He makes the rose an object of His care,
He guides the eagle thro’ the pathless air,
And surely He remembers me;
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
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I trust in God, for, in the lion’s den,
On battlefield, or in the prison pen,
Thro’ praise or blame, thro’ flood or flame,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
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The valley may be dark, the shadows deep,
But O, the Shepherd guards His lonely sheep;
And thro’ the gloom He’ll lead me home,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
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