The Birds Are Singing in My Heart

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Scenes of beauty greet me everywhere

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [Scenes of beauty greet me everywhere]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Scenes of beauty greet me ev’rywhere;
Birds are singing, music fills the air;
Grasses sparkle, skies are sunny blue—
Listen, and the secret I will tell to you.

Refrain:
The birds are singing in my heart,
The birds are singing in my heart;
The days are happy and the nights are never long,
For the birds are always singing in my heart.

2 Daylight fades into the golden west;
Darkness falls, I lay me down to rest;
Heav’nly voices bless the since deep;
Angels ‘round my bed their ceaseless vigil keep. [Refrain]

3 Life is filled with beauty like the flow’rs;
Peace and gladness crown the weary hours;
God is good, and from His realm above
Sends the birds to sing of heaven and His love. [Refrain]

Source: Progressive Sunday School Songs #104

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Author: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Scenes of beauty greet me everywhere
Title:	The Birds Are Singing in My Heart
Author:	A. H. Ackley
Refrain First Line:	The birds are singing in
Copyright:	Public Domain