March 11, 2003
Dear Thomas,
You sang a lovely song at my mother’s memorial service…. I know I speak for my familly when I say thank you from all of us for being there and singing on short notice. Mom spoke very highly of you. All our best to you.
Dorie and Mike Hamilton, Macon, Ga.
“His Eye Is On the Sparrow”
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heav’n and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Refrain:
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.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though 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.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
– Charles H. Gabriel, 1905
Below, a 1994 rendition of the song by the Mississippi Children’s Choir with soloist Bryan Andrew Wilson, then 10.