I Would Be Like Jesus

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

Earthly pleasures vainly call me

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Earthly pleasures vainly call me] (Ackley)
Published in 119 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

PowerPoint
	I WOULD BE LIKE JESUS (Celebration 561)

Representative Text

1 Earthly pleasures vainly call me;
I would be like Jesus;
Nothing worldly shall enthrall me,
I would be like Jesus.

Refrain:
Be like Jesus - this my song,
In the home and in the throng;
Be like Jesus, all day long,
I would be like Jesus.

2 He has broken every fetter,
I would be like Jesus;
That my soul may serve Him better,
I would be like Jesus. [Refrain]

3 All the way from earth to glory,
I would be like Jesus;
Telling o’er and o’er the story,
I would be like Jesus. [Refrain]

4 That in heaven He may meet me,
I would be like Jesus;
That His words “Well done” may greet me,
I would be like Jesus. [Refrain]

Source: The Celebration Hymnal: songs and hymns for worship #561

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: James Rowe

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 >

^ top

First Line:	Earthly pleasures vainly call me
Title:	I Would Be Like Jesus
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Be like Jesus, this my song
Copyright:	Public Domain