Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

I love to tell the story

No. 1204
Tune I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY.
Words Miss Kate Hankey.
Music W. G. Fischer.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

I love to tell the storyOf unseen things above,Of Jesus and his glory,Of Jesus and his love;I love to tell the story,Because I know 'tis true,It satisfies my longingAs nothing else can do.

Chorus.

I love to tell the story;'Twill be my theme in gloryTo tell the old, old storyOf Jesus and his love.

I love to tell the story;More wonderful it seemsThan all the golden fanciesOf all our golden dreams;I love to tell the story,It did so much for me,And that is just the reasonI tell it now to thee.

I love to tell the story;'Tis pleasant to repeatWhat seems, each time I tell it,More wonderfully sweet;I love to tell the story,For some have never heardThe message of salvationFrom God's own holy word.

I love to tell the story;For those who know it bestSeem hungering and thirstingTo hear it like the rest;And when in scenes of glory,I sing the new, new song,'Twill be the old, old storyThat I have loved so long.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1204» (large, left), title «I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in two lines, «"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should / not perish, but have everlasting life."—John 3 : 16.»; «MISS KATE HANKEY.» at the left and «W. G. FISCHER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no meter, no reference line and no running head are printed. The four stanzas are interlinear, «1.»–«4.» before the lines of system 1; the chorus, headed «CHORUS.», is printed once in systems 4–5 and is sung after every stanza. «By permission.» is printed under the music, above the page number «422». The print sets a thin space before some «;» (clearest in «rest ;», «sweet ;»); it is closed up here. Apostrophes and quotation marks are written straight («'Tis», «'tis», «'Twill», «God's»). Words divided under the notes are joined («a-bove», «Je-sus», «sat-is-fies», «mes-sage» → «above», «Jesus», «satisfies», «message»); each stanza is set in its eight verse lines (the print runs two or three verse lines on one staff line). Stanza 3, verse 3: the word «seems» is printed in a heavier patched type, smeared, followed by a displaced comma (see uncertainties.md); stanza 4, verse 5: «And» is printed in a different condensed type. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.