I want to go to Jesus

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I want to go to Jesus

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [I want to go to Jesus]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 I want to go to Jesus,
Who for the children plead;
And feel those hands of blessing
Rest softly on my head.

Refrain:
I want to go to Jesus!
I want to go to Jesus!
I want to go to Jesus,
For he loves me so!

2 I want to go to Jesus,
Oh, turn me not away;
“Of such shall be my kingdom,”
His Holy Word doth say. [Refrain]

3 I want to go to Jesus;
Tho’ just a child I am;
I know the loving Savior
Will never pass me by. [Refrain]

Source: United Praise: for use in Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies and other Church Services #133

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. 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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