1 Are you burdened, worn and weary,
Heeding still the tempter's call?
Is your life each day more dreary?
Just tell Jesus, tell Him all.
Refrain:
Just tell Jesus, tell Him all,
Trials great and trials small;
He will share them, freely bear them,
Just tell Jesus, tell Him all.
2 Would you have your past forgiven,
And be lifted, if you fall?
Trust the Friend whose side was riven,
Just tell Jesus, tell Him all. [Refrain]
3 Are you needing one to guide you,
Shelter when the storms appall,
Someone who would stay beside you?
Just tell Jesus, tell Him all. [Refrain]
Source: The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) #191
Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
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