1)  I love to steal a while away
 From ev'ry cumb'ring care,
 And spend the hours of setting day,
 In humble, grateful, pray'r.
2)  I love in solitude to shed
 the penitential tear,
 And all His promises to plead,
 Where none but God can hear.
 
 Chorus:
 
 I want to go, I want to go,
 I want to go there too;
 I want to go where Jesus is,
 I want to go there too.
5) Thus, when life's toil some day is o'er,
 May its departing ray,
 Be calm as this impressive hour,
 And lead to endless day.
Chorus:
From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006.
Published: 17 August 2010
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