Carry Your Burden With a Smile

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Do you weary grow on your toilsome road?

Author: B. B. McKinney
Tune: [Do you weary grow on your toilsome road]
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Do you weary grow on your toilsome road?
Carry your burden with a smile;
Do you almost sink ‘neath your heavy load?
Carry your burden with a smile.

Refrain:
Carry your burden with a smile,
For sighing was never worth the while;
But ‘twill help the faint and weary o’er some long and rugged mile,
If you’ll carry your burden with a smile.

2 Does the sky seem dark and the way grow dim?
Carry your burden with a smile;
Look to God in faith, put your trust in Him,
Carry your burden with a smile. [Refrain]

3 There are hearts that long for the sunshine bright,
Carry your burden with a smile;
Let the glad song ring thro’ the darkest night,
Carry your burden with a smile. [Refrain]

4 Cast your all on Him, on His pow’r depend,
Carry your burden with a smile;
For the King of kings is your dearest Friend,
Carry your burden with a smile. [Refrain]

Source: The Modern Hymnal #290

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Author: B. B. McKinney

Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Wor… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Do you weary grow on your toilsome road?
Title:	Carry Your Burden With a Smile
Author:	B. B. McKinney
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Carry your burden with a smile
Publication Date:	1920
Copyright:	Public Domain