If I Listen With My Heart

This song in its original form was written for my youngest daughter, Amy. In 2007 the Primary organization of the LDS Church asked me to revise and simplify the song for inclusion in the 2011 Primary Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation. The simplified version is included in the booklet, and there's an easy flute obbligato that matches it below. You can hear it in the first recordings listed, with vocals by my young friend Jenny Beth, or on the accompaniment track without vocals..

Scores

Low-voice solo: PDF / .pc
Children: PDF / .pc

Simplified: PDF / .pc
Flute Obbligato: PDF / .pc

Sheet music as arranged by Kamie Bolen $
 (from Jenny Phillips' 2011 Primary Theme CD $)

Lyrics

If I had been a little child
   when Jesus lived on earth
I would have liked to walk with Him
    and listen to his words
But as I search the scriptures
    I can hear His words of peace
And if I listen with my heart,
    I hear the Savior's voice

I hear a living prophet speak
    the things that Christ would say
If He were here upon the earth
    to talk with me today
The prophet teaches how to live
    in righteousness and peace
And if I listen with my heart,
    I hear the Savior's voice

I feel the Holy Spirit as
    he teaches truth and right
He comforts me in times of need,
    he testifies of Christ
He speaks to me in quiet ways
    that fill my soul with peace
And when I listen with my heart,
    I hear the Savior's voice

Recordings

MP3 Recording (Simplified version)
Download

MP3 Accompaniment Track: Download


MP3 Recording by Colleen Thliveris:
  Download

MP3 Accompaniment Track:
  Download


MP3 Recording by Allyse Smith Taylor:
Download $ ?
CD: My All Is Thine

(Piano: Marvin Goldstein; Guitar: Ryan Tilby; Flute: Daron Bradford)

The score for this arrangement is available here ($). (Click the "songbook" link at the top of the page.)


A children's choral MP3 Recording of the simplified version can be found here.


 

 

"If I Listen With My Heart, I Hear the Savior's Voice," Text by yours truly (the actual lyrics of the song this time), with really gorgeous art work by two of my favorites: Greg Olsen and Liz Lemon Swindle. This time the music is included at the end of the book, which I think is very cool. Available from Deseret Book starting September 2011.

 

Church Music Submission: Children's Song Division - Award of Distinction 1999
The original version of this song is archived here.

 

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