I Think When I Read That Sweet Story

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1. I think when I read that sweet sto - ry of old, When

2. I wish that his hands had been placed on my head, That his
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called lit - tle chil - dren like lambs to his fold; I should
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like to have been with him then.

lit - tle ones come un - to me.”

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Words: Jemima Luke, 1813 –1906 3 Nephi 17:21– 23
Music: Leah Ashton Lloyd, 1894 –1965 Luke 18:16

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