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Text:If We Brightly Shine
Author:William Marion Runyan
Tune:[If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]
Composer:Daniel Brink Towner
Media:MIDI file

3154. If We Brightly Shine

1. If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile,
We will help to shorten each long mile;
If we speak the words of love and cheer
Happy days will make a happy year.

Refrain
If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile,
We will help to shorten the long, long mile;
It will help to make our lives divine,
If, with Jesus’ love we shine, shine, shine.

2. If we do kind deeds in a kindly way,
Friends will gladly greet us day by day,
And our presence, then, will welcome be,
All because our happiness they see. [Refrain]

3. So we’ll sweetly smile and we’ll brightly shine,
And the cross of Jesus be our sign;
For we want this world to better be
By our loving service, glad and free. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile
Title: If We Brightly Shine
Author: William Marion Runyan (1919)
Refrain First Line: If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [If we brightly shine, if we sweetly smile]
Composer: Daniel Brink Towner
Incipit: 34511 55622 11776
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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