Jesus Loves Me

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Jesus loves me, I'm His child

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Jesus loves me, I'm His child]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Jesus loves me, I’m his child,
Though by nature sin-defiled;
Yet he washed me, made me clean,
Dwells himself my heart within.

Refrain:
Jesus loves me, praise his name,
I am cleansed from ev’ry stain;
I have plunged beneath the flood,
I’m redeemed thro’ Jesus’ blood.

2 Jesus all my grief doth know,
Measures well my cup of woe;
Knows, for he the path hath trod,
Bore for me the wrath of God. [Refrain]

3 Jesus will not send a pain
Which to me shall not be gain;
Nor in anger deal the blow;
Strength to bear it will bestow. [Refrain]

4 Jesus soon will call me home;
There no pain nor grief can come;
Then on Canaan’s peaceful shore
I shall praise him evermore. [Refrain]

Source: Redemption Songs #91

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Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Jesus loves me, I'm His child
Title:	Jesus Loves Me
Author:	P. P. Bliss
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Jesus loves me, praise His name
Copyright:	Public Domain