Jesus Love Me Yes I Know

Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn written by Anna B. Warner The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of a novel called Say and Seal , written by Susan Warner and published in 1860. The tune was added in 1862 by William Batchelder Bradbury who found the text of "Jesus Loves Me" in a book, in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. Along with his tune, Bradbury added his own chorus "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me..." After publication the song became one of the most popular Christian hymns in churches around the world.

Lyrics

Three verses appear along with the first verse in the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary, the hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. These four verses are the only verses of the hymn in this hymnal.

Recorded versions

Versions have been recorded by contemporary artists such as Whitney Houston, cocorosie, Destiny's Child, Anita Bryant, Kenny Loggins, Sting, Dolly Parton, Javier Bardem, The Coen Brothers, Jimmy Carter, Aretha Franklin, Tim Curry, Danity Kane, William Sledd, Cher, Christie Brinkley, DMX, Jaslene Gonzalez, and Placebo.

Some characters in the PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 game BioShock sing the first stanza of the song randomly.

Many versions can be found in a search of shared videos

In the movie Phantoms the first line of the song appeared on a computer screen.

History

In 1943 in the Solomon Islands, John F. Kennedy's PT-109 was rammed and sunk. Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who found Kennedy and the survivors remember that when they rode on PT boats to retrieve the survivors, the Marines sang this song with the natives, who learned it from missionaries.

This hymn was titled "China" in some hymnals of the 19th century, and was the inspiration for the name of the town of China, Maine.

The song's first two lines are occasionally heard in the survival horror first-person shooter, BioShock. When the main character is walking around a splicer that has not yet seen the player, they sometimes sing "Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so."

Notes

1. ^ Biography and hymns of Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915).
2. ^ WikiQuote WikiQuote 2008
3. ^ Time Pacific magazine Time Pacific Aug 15, 2005
4. ^ "Hymnals: Psalter Hymnal: 571". Calvin Hymnary Project . Calvin College . http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/571 . Retrieved 2009-04-20 .  

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