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When the Heart Is in Tune

When the heart is in tune, its trembling chords

Author: Fanny J. Crosby
Tune: [When the heart is in tune]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 When the heart is in tune, its trembling chords
Swell the name of Jesus;
Then the strings that were mute with joy expand
At the touch of His master hand.

Refrain:
Sweetest music, sweetest music,
When the blessed name we love—
From the full heart breaks;
Sweetest music, sweetest music,
When the melody of song He wakes.

2 When the heart is in tune, its only song—
Praise and love to Jesus;
With a holy delight its chords expand
At the touch of His master hand. [Refrain]

3 When the heart is in tune, it wearies not,
Still it sings of Jesus;
For its strings are in tune with harps above
And the songs of redeeming love. [Refrain]

Source: The Bright Array #118

Author: Fanny J. Crosby

Pseudonymns: A.V., Mrs. A. E. Andrews, Mrs. E. A. Andrews, Mrs. E. L. Andrews, James L. Black, Henrietta E. Blair, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, Leah Carlton, Eleanor Craddock, Lyman G. Cuyler, D.H.W., Ella Dare, Ellen Dare, Mrs. Ellen Douglass, Lizzie Edwards. Miss Grace Elliot, Grace J. Frances, Victoria Frances, Jennie Garnett, Frank Gould, H. D. K., Frances Hope, Annie L. James, Martha J. Lankton [Langton], Grace Lindsey, Maud Marion, Sallie Martin, Wilson Meade, Alice Monteith, Martha C. Oliver, Mrs. N. D. Plume, Kate Smiley, Sallie Smith, J. L. Sterling, John Sterling, Julia Sterling, Anna C. Storey, Victoria Stuart, Ida Scott Taylor, Mary R. Tilden, Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Hope Tryaway, Grace Tureman, Carrie M. Wilson, W.H.D. Frances… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: When the heart is in tune, its trembling chords
Title: When the Heart Is in Tune
Author: Fanny J. Crosby
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Sweetest music, sweetest music
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Bright Array #118

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