Key: C 
 
Verse 1 
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Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? 
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Why should my heart be lonely And long for heaven and home, 
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When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He: 
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His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
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His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
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I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free, 
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For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
 
Verse 2: 
"Let not your heart be troubled," His tender word I hear, 
And resting on His goodness I lose my doubts and fears, 
Tho' by the path He leadeth, But one step I may see, 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
  
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free; 
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
 
Verse 3:  
Whenever I am tempted, Whenever doubts arise, 
When songs give place to sighing, When hope within me dies, 
I draw the closer to Him, From cares He sets me free, 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me; 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me. 
  
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free; 
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.