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Text:Nothing of My Own to Claim
Author:C. E. Retters
Tune:AYER
Composer:Daniel Brink Towner
Media:MIDI file

4603. Nothing of My Own to Claim

1. Would you know how I was saved,
Gained the peace that now I have;
How He saved me from the fall?
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Refrain
Nothing of my own to claim,
Trusting only Jesus’ name;
Making Him my all in all,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

2. Poor and helpless soul was I,
Sinful and afraid to die;
Jesus heard my stammering call,
Trusting Jesus did it all. [Refrain]

3. Not by works was my reward,
But believing on the Lord;
Saved was I through faith, though small—
Trusting Jesus, that is all. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Would you know how I was saved
Title: Nothing of My Own to Claim
Author: C. E. Retters (1918)
Refrain First Line: Nothing of my own to claim
Meter: 77.77 D
Language: English
Source: Songs of the Great Salvation by William M. Runyan & Daniel Towner (Wichita, Kansas: The Runyan Music Publishing Company, circa 1919), number 105
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: MADRID (CARR), Benjamin Carr, 1824
Tune Information
Name: AYER
Composer: Daniel Brink Towner (1919)
Meter: 77.77 D
Incipit: 34556 71666 67121
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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