Before I Take the Sacrament
Author: Mabel Jones Gabbott
Composer: Gladys Ericksen Seely
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Når Nadveren bli’r omdelt
- Dutch: Voordat ik neem van ’t Avondmaal
- English: Before I Take the Sacrament
- Finnish: Kun sakramentin nautin
- French: Pendant la Sainte-Cène
- German: Beim Abendmahl
- Icelandic: Áður en brauðið borða ég
- Italian: E per il sacramento
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Før jeg mitt nadverdsmåltid tar
- Portuguese: Antes de Tomar o Sacramento
- Samoan: Ae Ou Te Lei Tago I Le Faamanatuga
- Spanish: Al tomar la Santa Cena
- Swedish: När sakramentet delas ut
- Tongan: Kau Ka Toʻo Hono Sino
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1963 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: The Instructor (1930–1970), Mar 1963.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Before I take the sacrament, I sit so quietly. I know that Jesus came to earth and died for me.
2. I think of all the boys and girls whom Jesus used to know, The days he walked upon the earth, so long ago.
3. I take the water and the bread and try so hard to be The kind of child that Jesus loved in Galilee.
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