Hi Praise, you are correct. This song has been around a long time, but it must have appeared in some of the Gospel Songs type books, It isn't in any of the Baptist Hymnals going all the way back to the 1940 Broadman Hymnal, but I remember hearing it all my life & I'm almost as old as that Hymnal!

The way I remember it, you sing the Verse at a medium tempo, as smoothly & gently as possible. Sing the first 2 lines of the chorus with more energy, but begin to slow down on the 3rd line of the chorus & slower & slower & softer & softer to the end.

But the best thing about this song is the words. How true they are!

Randall