When My Life With the Tide Goes Out

I have a pilot to guide my bark

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [I have a Pilot to guide my bark]
Published in 1 hymnal

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Representative Text

1 I have a Pilot to guide my bark
Safely o’er the wave, tho’ the night be dark;
Trackless the deep, He the course will mark,
When my life with the tide goes out.

Refrain:
When my life with the tide goes out;
When my life with the tide goes out,
Then my Savior I’ll see, my Pilot is He,
When my life with the tide goes out.

2 Pain there may be, and some sad farewells
Ere my boat starts out on the ocean swells;
But with my Saviour all happiness dwells,
When my life with the tide goes out. [Refrain]

3 Over the wave on the farther shore,
I will have a mansion for evermore;
Mine it will be when earth days are o’er,
When my life with the tide goes out. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs for Service #157

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: I have a pilot to guide my bark
Title: When My Life With the Tide Goes Out
Author: John R. Clements
Language: English
Refrain First Line: When my life with the tide goes out
Publication Date: 1929
Copyright: Public Domain

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