1 There's a song my soul keeps singing o'er and o'er,
As I travel onward to the Golden Shore; -
I shall sing it over there forevermore:
What a Savior Jesus is!
Chorus:
What a Savior! (What a Savior Jesus is!)
What a Savior! (What a Savior Jesus is!)
What a Savior since I know that I am His!
What a Savior! (What a Savior Jesus is!)
What a Savior! (What a Savior Jesus is!)
What a Savior Jesus is!
2 I was blind, but Jesus brought me to the light,
And His tender touch of love restored my sight;
Now my ransomed soul keeps singing day and night:
What a Savior Jesus is! [Chorus]
3 I am trav'ling on with Jesus hand in hand,
Ever drawing nearer to the golden strand;
I will sing until I reach the Glory-land;
What a Savior Jesus is! [Chorus]
4 When at last my soul shall reach that blissful place,
Saved eternally by His unbounded grace,
I shall sing while I behold Him face to face:
What a Savior Jesus is!
Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #90
Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and lived in Chicago all her life. She attended the Moody Church, pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, Avis Burgeson married Ernest Christiansen who later became a vice president of Moody Bible Institute. She was a modest and retiring woman, and sometimes used pen names: Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid. She began writing poems in childhood, and before her death in 1985 had written thousands of them. She died in 1985.
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