God Is Always Near Me

DESCRIPTION: "God is always near me, hearing what I say, knowing all my thoughts and deeds, all my work and play...." "God is always near me, though so young and small; not a look or word or thought, but God knows it all."
AUTHOR: Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876) (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1883 (A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodied #62, accoring to hymnary.org)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 108, "God is always near me" (1 fragment)
Roud #25517
NOTES [32 words]: For more on Philip Paul Bliss, see the notes to "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning." Oddly, given that Bliss was more a tune-writer than a text-writer, many tunes have been used for this text. RBW
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