It’s still a very popular song today. I wonder how popular it was then.
RE: It’s still a very popular song today. I wonder how popular it was then.
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From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Loves_Me
Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn set to words by Anna Bartlett 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 this 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.