Today (Charles Albert Tindley)

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  • (Posted 2022-07-09)  CPDL #69934:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-07-09).   Score information: A5, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Soul Echoes, 1909. All four stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Today
First Line: I've wandered in the darkness long enough
Composer: Charles Albert Tindley
Lyricist: Charles Albert Tindley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymnGospel hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1905 in Soul Echoes, Edition 1, no. 0
    2nd published: 1909 in Soul Echoes, Edition 2, no. 17
    3rd published: 1916 in New Songs of Paradise, Edition 1, no. 10
Description: A gospel hymn.

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Original text and translations

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1. I've wandered in the darkness long enough,
Without a hand to guide me;
Beyond is a waste too dangerous and rough,
Now I turn, dear Lord, to thee.

Chorus. I start this very day To lay aside my way,
What e'er thou shalt make it, I will undertake it,
To do thy will, not mine.

 

2. The pleasures I've sought are fading away,
My friends are going from me;
I am nearing the end of life's short day,
Now I turn, dear Lord, to thee.

3. The chains of sin are binding my heart,
I have tried so oft to be free;
Again in thy name, dear Jesus, I start,
To cast my all on thee.

 

4. I hear that thou saved a thief on the cross,
When he turned and looked on thee;
If thou, as of old, art saving the lost,
I pray thee, remember me.