{
  "title": "I was a wandering sheep",
  "author": "",
  "tune": "Lebanon",
  "number": "396",
  "lyrics": "I was a wand'ring sheep,\nI did not love the fold;\nI did not love my Shepherd's voice,\nI would not be controlled.\nI was a wayward child,\nI did not love my home;\nI did not love my Father's voice,\nI loved afar to roam.\n\nThe Shepherd sought his sheep,\nThe Father sought his child;\nThey followed me o'er vale and hill,\nO'er deserts waste and wild:\nThey found me nigh to death,\nFamished and faint and lone;\nThey bound me with the bands of love,\nThey saved the wand'ring one.\n\nJesus my Shepherd is;\n'Twas he that loved my soul,\n'Twas he that washed me in his blood,\n'Twas he that made me whole;\n'Twas he that sought the lost,\nThat found the wand'ring sheep,\n'Twas he that brought me to the fold,\n'Tis he that still doth keep.\n\nI was a wand'ring sheep,\nI would not be controlled;\nBut now I love my Shepherd's voice,\nI love, I love the fold.\nI was a wayward child,\nI once preferred to roam;\nBut now I love my Father's voice,\nI love, I love his home.",
  "first_line": "I was a wand'ring sheep,"
}