{"slug": "count-your-blessings", "title": "Count Your Blessings", "first_line": "When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed", "author": "johnson-oatman-jr", "author_date": "1897", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [11, 11, 11, 11], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Thankfulness", "Gratitude", "Providence", "Encouragement", "Trials"], "scripture": ["Psalm 103:2", "Ephesians 1:3", "Psalm 68:19", "Lamentations 3:22-23"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "songs-for-young-people-1897", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Johnson Oatman, Jr. (1856-1922), written for E. O. Excell's tune and first printed with it in Songs for Young People (Chicago: E. O. Excell, 1897), No. 34, over the engraved line \"COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY E. O. EXCELL. WORDS AND MUSIC\" and the credit \"Rev. J. Oatman, Jr.\" at the left \u2014 archive.org youngpeo00exce leaves 0038-0039. All four stanzas are printed interlinear with a written-out chorus and a second, smaller lyric row for the tenor/bass patter. Collated word for word against the same text in Make Christ King (1912), No. 56 (makechristkingse00exce leaf 0064), The New Make Christ King (1914), No. 82 (newmakechristkin00unse leaf 0086), and Famous Gospel Hymns (1907), No. 94 (famousgospelhymn00town leaf 0100). US public domain: published 1897; Oatman died 1922, so PD in life+70 jurisdictions too. Punctuation and capitals follow the 1912/1914 plates (the corpus's primary engraving), including the chorus's capitalized \"Name\" and \"See\" and stanza 3's \"money can not buy\" printed as two words.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "Hand-encoded 2026-07-31 from the 1897 first printing and the 1912/1914 Make Christ King plates", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "When up -- on life's bil -- lows you are tem -- pest tossed, When you are dis -- cour -- aged, think -- ing all is lost, Count your man -- y bless -- ings, name them one by one, And it will sur -- prise you what the Lord hath done.", "prose": ["When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,", "When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,", "Count your many blessings, name them one by one,", "And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Are you ev -- er bur -- dened with a load of care? Does the cross seem heav -- y you are called to bear? Count your man -- y bless -- ings, ev -- 'ry doubt will fly, And you will be sing -- ing as the days go by.", "prose": ["Are you ever burdened with a load of care?", "Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?", "Count your many blessings, ev'ry doubt will fly,", "And you will be singing as the days go by."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "When you look at oth -- ers with their lands and gold, Think that Christ has prom -- ised you His wealth un -- told; Count your man -- y bless -- ings, mon -- ey can not buy Your re -- ward in heav -- en, nor your home on high.", "prose": ["When you look at others with their lands and gold,", "Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;", "Count your many blessings, money can not buy", "Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "So, a -- mid the con -- flict, wheth -- er great or small, Do not be dis -- cour -- aged, God is o -- ver all; Count your man -- y bless -- ings, an -- gels will at -- tend, Help and com -- fort give you to your jour -- ney's end.", "prose": ["So, amid the conflict, whether great or small,", "Do not be discouraged, God is over all;", "Count your many blessings, angels will attend,", "Help and comfort give you to your journey's end."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Count your bless -- ings, Name them one by one; Count your bless -- ings, See what God hath done; Count your bless -- ings, Name them one by one; Count your man -- y bless -- ings, See what God hath done.", "prose": ["Count your blessings, Name them one by one;", "Count your blessings, See what God hath done;", "Count your blessings, Name them one by one;", "Count your many blessings, See what God hath done."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}