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Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title-Chart & Compass

15 Jun 00 - 10:28 AM (#242807)
Subject: LYR REQ: Help w/Song TITLE
From: GUEST,J'SOM

Need TITLE and other verses??

I've a chart and a compass that cannot fail
And I'm shouting happy as on I sail
Knowing Jesus forever with me will be
I'm sailing on to eternity

I'm sailing, sailing upon life's sea
I'm sailing on to eternity
Billows are powerless to harm my soul
For the ship is under the Lord's control...


16 Jun 00 - 06:28 PM (#243542)
Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Help w/Song TITLE
From: The Shambles

Anyone???????


16 Jun 00 - 11:33 PM (#243644)
Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Help w/Song TITLE
From: Ebbie

Sailing Upon Life's Sea; * A Compass That Cannot Fail; Jesus Ever With Me Upon the Sea; My Rudder is Jesus; The Wind is Jesus; Jesus is My Compass; Ever On I Sail...

I dunno, J'Som. Maybe more verses would make the title more obvious. Good luck.

Ebbie


18 Jun 00 - 10:25 PM (#244220)
Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Help w/Song TITLE
From: Hotspur

I tried to find it in the array of old hymnals we seem to have amassed over the years...no luck yet. I'll keep looking.


13 Oct 14 - 11:22 PM (#3668868)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: GUEST,Donna

I have been looking for this song for years! My grandparents used to sing in a quartet and we would sing this song with them on road trips. I hope to find the rest of the words and music one day.


14 Oct 14 - 09:29 AM (#3668971)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: Norval

Hymnary.org says the

Title is: Sailing On Life's Great Sea
Composer is: C.W.Churchill
Date:1921


14 Oct 14 - 01:03 PM (#3669062)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: GUEST,#

Norval, no offence, but none of the lyrics from the OP are in that humn that I can see.


14 Oct 14 - 02:33 PM (#3669105)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

I'm sailing o'er the sea of life- Aimee Semple McPherson?


14 Oct 14 - 03:10 PM (#3669117)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: GUEST,#

If it's any consolation to anyone, the OP posted once on Mudcat under that moniker.


08 Apr 21 - 01:20 PM (#4101396)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title
From: GUEST,#

https://hymnary.org/text/were_sailing_sailing_over_lifes_great_se

Sheet music and lyrics and brief info about the song.


08 Apr 21 - 01:44 PM (#4101399)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title-Chart & Compass
From: Joe Offer

Chart & Compass are essential elements in the song, and they are words that can't be mistaken. If the song doesn't include those words, it's probably not the song.

I searched my bookshelves and cannot find my copy of Foursquare Hymnal, complete with a copy of the signature and fetching image of Aimee Semple McPherson, so I can't check out her "Sailing o'er the Sea of Life," that Q suggested.

-Joe-


13 Apr 21 - 07:50 PM (#4102128)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title-Chart & Compass
From: cnd

The song is "I'm Sailing On" by the inimitable Virgil Stamps. via hymnary.org:

I am safely sailing across the tie,
And my barque is breasting as on I sail;
Knowing Jesus ever with me will be,
I'm sailing on to eternity.

CHORUS
I'm sailing (yes I'm) sailing upon life's sea,
I'm sailing on to eternity
the raging billows now are pow'rless to harm my soul
For my ship is (ever) under the Lord's control.

I've a chart and a compass that cannot fail,
I am shouting happy as on I sail;
Knowing Jesus ever with me will be,
I'm sailing on to eternity.

Soon the harbor lights on the shore I'll see,
With my loved ones ever at home I'll be;
From the snares of sin I will then be free,
I'm sailing on to eternity


13 Apr 21 - 07:52 PM (#4102129)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help w/Song Title-Chart & Compass
From: cnd

Oops, that's two typos in a row today, I should really proof-read more carefully. The first line should be "I am sailing across the tide."