I Will Go, if My Father Holds My Hand (Charles Albert Tindley)

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• (Posted 2022-06-24)  CPDL #69790:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-06-24).   Score information: A5, 2 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Soul Echoes, 1909. All five stanzas included.

General Information

Title: I Will Go, if My Father Holds My Hand
First Line: When the pathway of duty
Composer: Charles Albert Tindley
Lyricist: Charles Albert Tindley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn, Gospel hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1907
    2nd published: 1909 in Soul Echoes, Edition 2, no. 12
    3rd published: 1916 in New Songs of Paradise, Edition 1, no. 28
Description: A gospel hymn.

Original text and translations

English text 1. When the pathway of duty seems with danger filled, And the charms of worldly beauty almost win my feeble will, Whole I see the cross uplifted, and I hear the King’s command, I will go, if my Father holds my hand. Chorus I will go, I will go, Though the mountains are high and the valleys low, I will go, I will go, I will go, if my Father holds my hand. 2. If my Father holds my hand, I can keep the narrow way, If my Father holds my hand, I will never go astray. Though oft it is so dark I can hardly find the way, I will go, if my Father holds my hand.

3. Though my strength is weak, by his grace I will seek To repose like Mary at the Savior’s feet; Then to climb to the heights of the pure delight, I will go, if my Father holds my hand. 4. When in the vale of sorrow I am called to go, And it seems each tomorrow simply brings another woe, I am satisfied to follow where he leads, this I know, I will go, if my Father holds my hand. 5. When the awful waves of Jordan beat upon my soul, In the icy hands of death my limbs are growing cold, I have nothing then to fear if my Lord is near, I will go, if my Father holds my hand.