Count Your Blessings
First line: When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed / When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed / When upon life’s billows
Original language: English
Words: Johnson Oatman Jr.
Music: Edwin O. Excell
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Count Your Blessings
Hymns
(1985, 2002 ed.), 241
1. When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,Count your many blessings; name them one by one,And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
[Chorus]Count your blessings;Name them one by one.Count your blessings;See what God hath done.Count your blessings;Name them one by one.Count your many blessings;See what God hath done.
2. Are you ever burdened with a load of care?Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?Count your many blessings; ev’ry doubt will fly,And you will be singing as the days go by.
3. When you look at others with their lands and gold,Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.Count your many blessings; money cannot buyYour reward in heaven nor your home on high.
4. So amid the conflict, whether great or small,Do not be discouraged; God is over all.Count your many blessings; angels will attend,Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
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These charts show the use of this song in English hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If a song appears in multiple editions of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once. [undetermined] means that tune information has not yet been entered in.
Tunes that have appeared with this song in English
Appearances of this song over time in English
Tune: Blessings (by Edwin O. Excell) (Return to top) Tune 241
Count Your Blessings
Hymns: Simplified Accompaniments (1986, 1986 ed.), no. 158
Arr.: Darwin Wolford
Count Your Blessings
Submitted Music (1980–Present), Jan 2018
Arr.: Ikuko Weller
Contributor: Ikuko Weller
Count Your Blessings
Music from April 2019 General Conference (2019, 2019-04 ed.), 2
Artist: Priesthood choir of Young Men
Arr.: James C. Kasen
Count Your Blessings
Music from October 2014 General Conference (2014, 2014-10 ed.), 2
Artist: The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
Count Your Blessings
Music from October 2010 General Conference (2010, 2010-10 ed.), 1
Artist: Relief Society choir
Arr.: James C. Kasen
Count Your Blessings
Music from October 2003 General Conference (2003, 2003-10 ed.), 1
Artist: Single adult choir
Arr.: James C. Kasen
When Upon Life’s Billows
Music from October 1979 General Conference (1979, 1979-10 ed.), 2
Artist: Congregation
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Other Restoration-Based Denominations
Count Your Blessings
Other Restoration-Based Denominations
Count Your Blessings
Zion’s Hymnal (Church of Christ, Temple Lot) (1975, 2013 ed.), 198
Other Christian Denominations
Count your (many) blessings, name them
Other Christian Denominations
Count Your Blessings
Other Christian Denominations
Count Your Blessings
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (1986, 1986 ed.), 563
Other Christian Denominations
Count Your Blessings
Other Restoration-Based Denominations
Count Your Blessings
Zion’s Hymnal (Church of Christ, Temple Lot) (1975, 1975 ed.), 198
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Unofficial or Local Publications
Count Your Many Blessings