My Secret of Joy (Charles Albert Tindley)

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  • (Posted 2022-06-24)  CPDL #69792:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-06-24).   Score information: A5, 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Soul Echoes, 1909.

General Information

Title: My Secret of Joy
First Line: You ask me where I get the joys
Composer: Charles Albert Tindley
Lyricist: Charles Albert Tindley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1909 in Soul Echoes, Edition 2, no. 14
    2nd published: 1916 in New Songs of Paradise, Edition 1, no. 9
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Original text and translations

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1. You ask me where I get the joys
That make my heart so light,
Which all the gloom of day destroys,
And gives me songs at night.

Chorus
Hallelujah! I belong to the King,
I am saved now and I have a right to sing.
For the light from heaven fills my soul,
And the night has passed away.

 

2. It is not wealth of land or gold,
Nor health or honored fame,
But joys of heaven in my soul,
A heaven in Jesus’ name.

3. I once was full of anxious fear,
I tried, but failed to see
That all I needed was so near,
The Christ that died for me.

 

4. I counted much upon my state
Of goodness, sense, and birth;
These only added to my fate,
They had no place or worth.