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Jesus Loves
Me
Anna
B. Warner |
The Lyrics
for "Jesus Loves Me" were written by Anna Bartlett Warner
(August 31, 1827 – January 22, 1915) an American writer, and
author of several hymns and religious songs for children. She
was born on Long Island and died in Highland Falls, New York.
Anna’s father was Henry Warner, a wealthy New York City
lawyer. When he lost most of his fortune in the 1837
depression, the family was forced to move to their summer
home (Good Craig) on Constitution Island in the Hudson
River. It was then that Anna and her sister Susan began
writing to earn money.
They also conducted Bible classes
for cadets at the nearby Military Academy at West Point.
In memory of her, the Academy’s Constitution Island
Association manages the Warner’s island property as an
historic site.
This hymn first appeared in the
novel Say and Seal, by Warner’s sister Susan; she
wanted a song for a Sunday School teacher to sing to a dying
boy, and asked Anna to write it. |
William B. Bradbury |
The tune was written by
William Batchelder Bradbury (6 October, 1816 – January 7,1868).
Bradbury was born in York, Maine where his father was the leader of a
choir. By age fourteen he had mastered every musical instrument
available, but never saw an organ or a piano until 1830, when his
parents moved to Boston. There he met Dr. Lowell Mason, and by 1834 was
known as an organist. In 1840, he began teaching in Brooklyn, New York,
where he gained popularity by his free singing-schools, and by his
concerts, at which the performers, all children, sometimes numbered
1,000. In 1847 he went to Germany, where he studied harmony,
composition, and vocal and instrumental music with the best masters.
In 1854, he started the
Bradbury Piano Company, with his brother, Edward G. Bradbury in New York
City. William Bradbury is best known as a composer and publisher of a
series of musical collections for choirs and schools. He was the author
and compiler of fifty-nine books. The first book was published in 1841.
In 1862, Bradbury found
Jesus Loves Me in a book in which the words were spoken as a
comforting poem to a dying child. Along with his tune, Bradbury added
his own chorus "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me..." After
publication the song became one of the most popular Christian hymns in
churches around the world.
He died on January 7, 1868 in
Montclair, New Jersey and was buried in Bloomfield Cemetery in
Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Lyrics by Anna Warner
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Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.
Refrain
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
Jesus loves me! This I know,
As He loved so long ago,
Taking children on His knee,
Saying, “Let them come to Me.”
Refrain
Jesus loves me still today,
Walking with me on my way,
Wanting as a friend to give
Light and love to all who live.
Refrain |
Jesus loves me! He who
died
Heaven’s gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.
Refrain
Jesus loves me! He will
stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.
Refrain
This
stanza from the original is commonly omitted
in hymnals:
Jesus
loves me! Loves me still,
Though I’m very weak and ill,
That I might from sin be free
Bled and died upon the tree.
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