Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile

Subject: Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 01:16 AM

Or maybe that's not the title.
Anyway, I got some of it from a 78rpm record, but a lot of the words seem garbled, This is what I was able to decipher:

Are you giving to the world a smile?
Helping brighten someone's weary mile,
Do you greet the world with song,
As you lightly pass along,
cheering those that you may meeet along life's way?

Chorus:
Give the world a smile each day,
helping someone on life's way,
from the path of sin bring the (?) in
to the Master's fold today,
(something garbled)
(THis line, too)
(and this line)
and all the world will see that you're out serving Jesus with
a smile

2nd verse:
You may be a shining light today,
Helping souls to heaven's glory way,
If you let your light so shine
that they see the path divine,
and you wear a pleasant smile along the way

CHorus

third verse:
Just a bright and shining smile will win,
(something) weary path of sin,
lift him up to a higher plane
where they hear the glad refrain,
(last line garbled)


That's what I have. Does it sound familiar to anyone else?
I checked the Cyber Hymnal using the first line of the first verse as a title, also the first and last lines of the chorus, but they didn't have it.

Thanks in advance for any help. RangerSteve

Subject: Lyr Add: GIVE THE WORLD A SMILE
From: masato sakurai
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 01:51 AM

From here:

    Give the World a Smile

      Words and music:
      Lead: None

Lyrics:

Are you giving to the world a smile (sunny smile)
Helping lessen someone's dreary mile (dreary mile)
Do you greet the world with song as through life you pass along
Cheering those you may meet along life's way

Chorus:
Give the world a smile each day (give the world a bright smile every day)
Helping someone on life's way (helping someone on life's dreary way)
From the paths of sin (paths of sin) oh bring the wonderer's in (bring them in)
To the master's fold to stay (to His fold, His forever to stay)
Help to cheer the lone and sad (help cheer the sad, the lonely and sad)
Help to make some pilgrim glad (help make pilgrim, make somebody glad)
Let your life so be that (life so be that) all the world might see
The joy of serving Jesus with a smile (a bright sunny smile)

Give the world a happy song today (song today)
That will help some pilgrim on His way (on His way)
You can tell him of the Lord and His heavenly reward
If you'll only follow Jesus day by day

Repeat Chorus

Scriptural Reference:

"When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them." Job 29:24

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 11:55 AM

Thanks, Masato. This isn't the first time you came through for me, and I'm pretty sure a lot of Catters can say the same thing. I don't know how you do it, but you're one of the more important people on this website. Thanks again. Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 11:56 AM

And thanks for finding that site. Acadisc looks like a worthwhile place to visit. I'll check it out later when I have more time.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:38 PM

According to allmusic, GIVE THE WORLD A SMILE was written by Otis Deaton and M. L. Yandell. It has been recorded by The Blackwood Brothers, The Cathedral Quartet, Bill & Gloria Gaither, The Kingsmen, Tex Ritter, The Stamps Quartet, and Hank Thompson.

An article from the Society for American Music Bulletin tells the story of how the song was written in 1925.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Serving Jesus with a Smile
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 12:12 PM

Well guess what? Look at Wikepedia. They have the words exactly as I quoted in my previous email.

Roy Wallace