“I Cannot Stop Singing” is my most recent song. And, honestly, I can’t seem to stop singing it. It was inspired by Psalm 59: 16:

But I will sing of your strength,
    in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
    my refuge in times of trouble.

and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17:

¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray continually

As you can see in the following lyrics, I’ve upper-cased certain keywords and phrases. I purposely did that to make it easier for me to follow the lyrics. Each stanza progresses from “morning” to “all day long” and then “each evening.” Notice that the keywords in each stanza progress from a single word or syllable to two and finally to three. That limited me to what I could say “I will sing of.”

I will sing of God’s LOVE every morning.
And I’ll sing of His PRESENCE all day long.
I will sing of His FAITHFULNESS each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.

refrain
I cannot stop singing about the Lord
And everything He is to me.
I cannot stop singing about the Lord.
His promises never fail.

I will sing of God’s GRACE every morning.
And I’ll sing of His MERCY all day long.
I will sing of His RIGHTEOUSNESS each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain)

I will sing of God’s STRENGTH every morning.
And I’ll sing of His GUIDANCE all day long.
I will sing of His CONSTANT CARE each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain)

I will sing of God’s JOY every morning.
And I’ll sing of His BLESSINGS all day long.
I will sing of His PERFECT PEACE each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain 2x)

A free lead sheet is available here.

It took two or three weeks to refine the lyrics and the melody even after I got started. I found it interesting to switch between C or G and G7 to match notes in the song. Not the normal G7 played on the first fret of the first string (an F note), but playing an F on the 3rd fret of the 4th string. That’s a lot of jumping back and forth at times.

I spent several hours trying to record this song so you can hear how I do it, but I only had time for a vanilla version with voice and guitar. Somehow the light percussion I had been playing with got mixed in; the big problem was trying to play the drum machine while holding the cord a certain way to keep it from shorting out while I was recording. (I’ve bought a new power cord since then.) Kindly ignore any percussion that doesn’t make sense.

Anyhow, you may listen to it here.

I’ve been teaching myself to play a uke — nothing fancy, just basic chords and strumming. And this song turned out to be a really good one to play that way. In fact, I would say the uke helped in developing the song. However, I didn’t try to add that to the recording.

I’m also still writing Christian novels. The QR code on the postcard graphic will take you to my Amazon Author page. The book cover graphic is for my most recent release.