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Text:I love to tell the story
Author:Katherine Hankey
Tune:I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY
Composer:William G. Fischer

443. I love to tell the story

1 I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory,
Of Jesus and His love.
I love to tell the story,
Because I know it's true;
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else could do.

Refrain:
I love to tell the story,
'T will be my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and His love.

2 I love to tell the story;
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it, like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'T will be the old, old story
That I have loved so long. [Refrain]

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: I love to tell the story
Author: Katherine Hankey (1866)
Refrain First Line: I love to thell the story
Meter: 7. 6. 7. 6. D. with Refrain
Publication Date: 1950
Topic: Children's Hymns
Notes: refrain added
Tune Information
Name: I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY
Composer: William G. Fischer (1869)
Meter: 7. 6. 7. 6. D. with Refrain
Key: A♭ Major



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