Close To Thee

Words:
Fanny J. Crosby
Music:
Silas J. Vail

Sheet music

  1. 1Thou, my everlasting portion,More than friend or life to me;All along my pilgrim journey,Savior, let me walk with Thee.Close to Thee, close to Thee,Close to Thee, close to Thee!All along my pilgrim journey,Savior, let me walk with Thee.
  2. 2Not for ease or worldly pleasure,Nor for fame my pray’r shall be;Gladly will I toil and suffer,Only let me walk with Thee.Close to Thee, close to Thee,Close to Thee, close to Thee!Gladly will I toil and suffer,Only let me walk with Thee.
  3. 3Lead me thru the vale of shadows,Bear me o’er life’s fitful sea;Then the gate of life eternalMay I enter, Lord, with Thee.Close to Thee, close to Thee,Close to Thee, close to Thee!Then the gate of life eternalMay I enter, Lord, with Thee.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1874, the words are in 518 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.

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