Key: Bb major
Verse 1
C
Ab
C
G
When Jesus no longer I see.
Ab
G
Sweet prospects,
Ab
G
sweet birds and sweet flowers,
C
Eb
Ab
Have all lost their sweetness to me.
G
Db
The midsummer sun shines but dim,
C
Ab
Eb
The fields strive in vain to look gay,
G
Ab
G
But when I am happy in him,
C
Ab
G
December's as pleasant as May.
Db
Ab
Eb
G
And sweeter than music His voice.
Ab
G
Ab
His presence disperses my gloom,
Db
Ab
G
And makes all within me rejoice.
Ab
C
I should, he always thus nigh,
Db
Ab
C
D
Eb
Have nothing to wish or to fear,
G
Ab
No mortal so happy as I,
C
Ab
Eb
My summer would last all
Ab
G
Ab
the year.
G
Ab
Content with beholding His face,
C
Ab
G
My all to His pleasure resigned.
C
Eb
G
Would make any change in my mind.
Ab
Db
While, blessed with a sense of His love,
C
Ab
D
A palace a toy would ap pear,
Eb
G
Ab
And prisons would palaces prove,
C
Ab
D
G
If Jesus would dwell with me there.
Ab
G
Dear Lord, if indeed I am Thine,
C
Eb
G
If Thou art my Son and my song,
Ab
G
Say, why do I languish and pine,
C
Eb
G
And why are my winters so long?
G
C
from my skies,
Eb
G
O 'er, take me unto thee on high,
C
Ab
G
C
Where winter and clouds are no more. you
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