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SAVIOR LIKE A SHEPHERD (Jacobs)

Composer: Wellington K. Jacobs

Born: March 16, 1876, Wilmot, Ontario, Canada. Buried: Trenton, Illinois. Around 1903, Jacobs was teaching music at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. He may have been living in Kirksville, Missouri, in 1910. In 1930, he and his wife Elizabeth were in St. Louis, Missouri. --www.hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SAVIOR LIKE A SHEPHERD (Jacobs)
Composer: Wellington K. Jacobs (1876)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Incipit: 54321 65432 34565
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

Savior, like a shepherd lead us,
Much we need Thy tender care;
In Thy pleasant pastures feed us,
For our use Thy folds prepare:
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are;
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.

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Notes

M.M. 58

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Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement #128

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The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 #155

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