Scripture Verse

The government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

Introduction

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Fanny Crosby
1820–1915

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, in Hea­ven­ly Sun­light, ed­it­ed by How­ard Ent­wisle, Pow­ell G. Fi­thi­an, Ad­am Gei­bel & R. Frank Leh­man (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Mac­Cal­la & Com­pa­ny, 1900), num­ber 31. Some hym­nals give the au­thor as Ida Scott Tay­lor, one of Fan­ny’s pseu­do­nyms.

Music: J. How­ard Ent­wisle (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Ent­wisle (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Tell me o’er and o’er again,
While the bells are ring­ing;
Tell me of the King of men,
Earth’s re­demp­tion bring­ing;
Tell me of the town of old,
Where a won­drous star of gold
Of the Sav­ior’s com­ing told;
Tell me of the King.

Refrain

Tell the sto­ry of the King,
Let the theme tri­um­phant ring,
He who came our peace to bring,
Tell me of the King.

Tell me of the gild­ed rocks
Lit with sud­den glo­ry;
Tell me of the dream­ing flocks
And the Christ­mas sto­ry;
Tell me o’er and o’er again,
How the watch­ing shep­herd men
Saw the star from vale and glen;
Tell me of the King.

Refrain

Tell me how the an­gels sang
Joy to ev­ery na­tion;
Tell me how the cho­rus rang
Over all cre­ation;
Tell, oh, tell the won­drous theme
Of the King of kings su­preme,
Born the peo­ple to re­deem;
Tell me of the King.

Refrain