1 When angry waves about me roll,
And hide my path across life’s sea,
No fear alarms my trusting soul,
For well I know who pilots me.
Refrain:
Yes, well I know who pilots me,
Across life’s ever-troubled sea;
The winds may rave and waves may swell,
While Jesus pilots, all is well.
2 Day after day, tho’ tossed about,
And often dang’rous rocks I see,
There comes to me no fear nor doubt,
For well I know who pilots me. [Refrain]
3 Tho’ each new day brings trials sore,
Tho’ rougher still the ocean be,
I know that I shall reach the shore,
For well I know who pilots me. [Refrain]
4 My Saviour’s love still guides me on,
My only chart and compass he;
I’ll trust him till the journey’s done,
For well I know who pilots me. [Refrain]
Source: Songs for All #46
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 >
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