Lift Every Voice and Sing II 59
My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me
- Tune
- [i trust in god wherever i may be]
- Author(s)
- W. C. Martin
- Composer(s)
- Charles H. Gabriel (1856-1932); J. Jefferson Cleveland (1937-1988); Verolga Nix (b. 1933)
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1 I trust in God wherever I may be, Upon the land or on the rolling sea; For come what may, from day to day,
Refrain: My heav’nly Father watches over me. I trust in God, I know He cares for me, On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea; Though billows roll, He keeps my soul, My heavn’ly Father watches over me.
2 He makes the rose an object of His care, He guides the eagle through the pathless air; And surely He remembers me, [Refrain]
3 I trust in God, for, in the lion’s den, On battlefield, or in the prison pen; Through praise or blame, through flood or flame, [Refrain]
4 The valley may be dark, the shadows deep, But oh, the shepherd guards His lonely sheep; And through the gloom, He’ll lead me home, [Refrain]