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Get a Smile from Jesus

Representative Text

1 Just a little smile from Jesus in the morning,
All your bitter disappointments will repay;
Tho’ the world may frown, while Jesus smiles upon you,
You’ll have sunshine in your heart throughout the day.

Refrain:
If you get a smile from Jesus in the morning
You’ll have smiles to scatter all along the way;
If you get a smile from Jesus in the morning,
You’ll have sunshine in your heart throughout the day.

2 If the crepe is on the door and loved ones leave you,
In your sorrow there is hope for you alway;
In the secret place of pray’r find consolation,
Then your heart will find new sunshine ev’ry day. [Refrain]

3 And when dark the evening shadows gather ‘round you
And when earthly things begin to fade away;
If you have the smile of Jesus thro’ life’s journey,
You’ll have sunshine at the ending of the day. [Refrain]

Source: Full Gospel Songs #66

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Just a little smile from Jesus in the morning
Title: Get a Smile from Jesus
Author: Herbert Buffum (1927)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: If you get a smile from Jesus
Copyright: Public Domain

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Full Gospel Songs #66

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New Songs of the Old Faith #84

Sunshine Choruses #d24

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