1 I have a Pilot to guide my bark
Safely o’er the wave, tho’ the night be dark;
Trackless the deep, He the course will mark,
When my life with the tide goes out.

Refrain:
When my life with the tide goes out;
When my life with the tide goes out,
Then my Savior I’ll see, my Pilot is He,
When my life with the tide goes out.

2 Pain there may be, and some sad farewells
Ere my boat starts out on the ocean swells;
But with my Saviour all happiness dwells,
When my life with the tide goes out. [Refrain]

3 Over the wave on the farther shore,
I will have a mansion for evermore;
Mine it will be when earth days are o’er,
When my life with the tide goes out. [Refrain]