When heavy is your load of care

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When heavy is your load of care

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [When heavy grows my load of care]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 When heavy grows my load of care,
Or when in sorrow or despair
I need a friend my woe to share,
I always go to Jesus.

Refrain:
I always go to Jesus,
The loving, faithful Jesus;
To him alone my wants are known;
I always go to Jesus.

2 When darkness hides the path I take,
And life’s wild storms upon me break;
When earthly friend, I loved, forsake,
I always go to Jesus. [Refrain]

3 When enemies their strength display,
And strive to cause my soul to stray,
From life and light, without delay
I always go to Jesus. [Refrain]

4 When worn, and weary, and depressed,
My trusting spirit sighs for rest,
To lay my head upon his breast,
I always go to Jesus. [Refrain]

Source: The Old Story in Song Number Two #19

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Author: James Rowe

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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