Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

Is My Name Written There?

Lord, I care not for riches,

No. 1205
Tune IS MY NAME WRITTEN THERE?
Words M. A. K.
Music Frank M. Davis.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Lord, I care not for riches,Neither silver nor gold;I would make sure of heaven,I would enter the fold;In the book of thy kingdom,With its pages so fair,Tell me, Jesus, my Saviour,Is my name written there?

Chorus.

Is my name written there,On the page white and fair?In the book of thy kingdom,Is my name written there?

Lord, my sins they are many,Like the sands of the sea,But thy blood, O my Saviour,Is sufficient for me;For thy promise is writtenIn bright letters that glow,"Tho' your sins be as scarlet,I will make them like snow."

Oh, that beautiful city,With its mansions of light,With its glorified beingsIn pure garments of white;Where no evil thing comethTo despoil what is fair,Where the angels are watching,—Is my name written there?

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1205» (large, left), title «IS MY NAME WRITTEN THERE?» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it a four-line epigraph of three Bible quotations (Luke 10 : 20; Rev. 3 : 5; Rev. 20 : 15; old-style figures); on the next line «M. A. K.» at the left (words) and «FRANK M. DAVIS.» at the right (music, capitals and small capitals). No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. The three stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«3.», between the staves of systems 1–4; «CHORUS.» (bold capitals) stands over the treble in the middle of system 4, after a heavy bar, and the chorus words are printed once (on the middle lyric line of system 4 and the single line of system 5); the chorus is sung after every stanza. «By permission.» is printed under the music, above the page number «423». Each printed line of words carries one to two verse lines; they are given here one verse line per line. Words printed whole under two notes («mansions», «garments», «written», «kingdom») are recorded as printed in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «?» («gold ;», «fold ;», «there ?»); it is closed up here; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight («"Tho'»). Spelling and punctuation are the print's («Saviour», «Tho'», «watching,—»).