The Things I Do
Author: L. Clair Likes
Composer: Vanja Y. Watkins
Languages (41)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Gjërat që Bëj
- American Sign Language (ASL): The Things I Do
- Armenian (East): Իմ գործերը
- Bulgarian: Моите добри дела
- Cebuano: Ang Akong Mga Gipanghimo
- Chinese (Traditional): 我的言行
- Czech: Skutky, které vykonám
- Danish: De ting jeg gør
- Dutch: Wat ik ook doe
- English: The Things I Do
- Estonian: Kõik, mida teen
- Fijian: [Unknown title]
- Finnish: Teoillani osoitan
- French: Ce que je fais
- German: Meine Taten
- Haitian Creole: Bagay m ap fè yo
- Hiligaynon: Sa Mga Buhat Ko
- Hungarian: Példát mutatok
- Ilokano: Dagiti Banag nga Aramidek
- Indonesian: Tindakanku
- Italian: Le cose che faccio
- Japanese: わたしにできること
- Khmer (Cambodian): [Unknown title]
- Kiribati (Gilbertese): Baika I Karaoi
- Korean: 내가 할 일
- Marshallese: Men ko Na Ij Kommani
- Mongolian: Миний Хийдэг Зүйлс
- Norwegian: Det jeg gjør
- Polish: Mój przykład
- Portuguese: Tudo o Que Eu Fizer
- Romanian: Lucrurile pe care le fac
- Russian: Как я веду себя
- Samoan: O Mea Ou Te Faia
- Spanish: Mi modo de actuar
- Swedish: Det jag gör
- Tagalog: Mga Ginagawa Ko
- Tahitian: Ta’u Mau Peu
- Thai: สิ่งที่ฉันทำ
- Tongan: Ko ʻEku Ngaahi Tōʻongá
- Ukrainian: Те, що я роблю
- Vietnamese: Những Việc Em Làm
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Most common tunes for “The Things I Do”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “The Things I Do” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1978 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: CSMP 1977: Every Member a Missionary (1977), p. 3b.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. I’m much too young to go abroad To teach and preach the word of God, But I can show I know it’s true, Quite simply, by the things I do.
2. The people in my neighborhood Will judge the gospel bad or good By how I act at work and play, And not just on the Sabbath day.
3. I’ll take my friends to church with me, Where I will act with dignity. My rev’rence and my happy face Will tell them it’s a sacred place.
4. In ev’rything I do they’ll see I am what I profess to be. Then when the elders find their door, they’ll say, “Come in and tell us more.”
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