Just Leave It Alone

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Some doubters are trying God's Word to revise

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Some doubters are trying God's Word to revise]
Published in 13 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Some doubters are trying God’s Word to revise,
Just leave it alone, just leave it alone;
No longer this line or that passage they prize,
Don’t change it, just leave it alone.

Refrain:
Just leave it alone,
'Tis God’s blessed word,
Whose Son did for evil atone;
Each word and each line tells of goodness divine,
Don’t change it, just leave it alone.

2 No mortal can better this message of old.
Just leave it alone, just leave it alone;
‘Tis far the best story that ever was told,
Don’t change it, just leave it alone. [Refrain]

3 ‘The army of martyrs” believed ev’ry word,
Just leave it alone, just leave it alone;
The souls of the saints and the sages it stirred,
Don’t change it, just leave it alone. [Refrain]

4 It’s light is the same as in ages gone by,
Just leave it alone, just leave it alone;
And still its great Giver is reigning on high,
Don’t change it, just leave it alone. [Refrain]

Source: Vocal Gems: our greatest song book for all religious services. Especially recommended for Sunday schools, revivals, W. M. B. and V. L. B. services #16

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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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First Line:	Some doubters are trying God's Word to revise
Title:	Just Leave It Alone
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Just leave it alone
Copyright:	Public Domain