Since I Gave My Heart to Jesus

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O how happy I have been since I turned away from sin

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [O how happy I have been]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Oh, how happy I have been
Since I turned away from sin,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus;
Like a joyful bird on wing,
I am happy, I must sing,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus.

Chorus:
Since I gave my heart to Jesus
I am happy all the day;
I am singing, yes, I’m always singing,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus.

2 Christ is with me day by day,
Giving comfort all the way,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus;
He has met my ev’ry need,
Been my faithful friend indeed,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus. [Chorus]

3 How I love the house of pray’r,
And the friends who gather there,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus;
Precious is the sacred word,
And my soul to faith is stirred,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus. [Chorus]

4 All my grief has flown away,
Blessed peace is mine today,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus;
Love and joy to me belong,
All my days are filled with song,
Since I gave my heart to Jesus. [Chorus]

Source: Songs for Work and Worship #97

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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck

Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck. Go to person page >

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First Line:	O how happy I have been since I turned away from sin
Title:	Since I Gave My Heart to Jesus
Author:	Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Since I gave my heart to Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain