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Text: | Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling |
Author: | W. L. T. |
Tune: | SOFTLY AND TENDERLY |
Composer: | Will L. Thompson |
1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me;
See at the portals He's waiting and watching,
Watching for you and for me.
Chorus:
Come home, Come home;
Ye who are weary come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
Calling, O sinner, come home!
2 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,
Pleading for you and for me?
Why should you linger and heed not His mercies,
Mercies for you and for me? [Chorus]
3 Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,
Passing from you and from me;
Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,
Coming for you and for me. [Chorus]
4 Oh, for the wonderful love He has promised,
Promised for you and for me;
Tho' we have sinn'd He has mercy and pardon,
Pardon for you and for me. [Chorus]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling |
Author: | W. L. T. |
Refrain First Line: | Come home, Come home |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1895 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOFTLY AND TENDERLY |
Composer: | Will L. Thompson |
Key: | A♭ Major |