Key: C 
 
Verse 1 
C                              F                      C  
Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? 
A7                     Dm     G                       C     
Why should my heart be lonely And long for heaven and home, 
     C           G7          C                  F   
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He: 
    G             C              G               C    
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
    C      C7     F    F7        C       G      C          
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
  G                C                     G                   C     
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free, 
        C      C7     F     F7       C       G7      C     
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
 
Verse 2: 
C                                                 F                         C 
"Let not your heart be troubled," His tender word I hear, 
A                            Dm             G                              C 
And resting on His goodness I lose my doubts and fears, 
C                               G         C                             F 
Tho' by the path He leadeth, But one step I may see, 
G                          C                  G               C 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; 
C      C7             F    F7                C       G      C          
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
 G                       C              G                   C     
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free; 
 C      C7                     F     F7       C                  G7      C     
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 
 
Verse 3:  
 
C                                         F                         C 
Whenever I am tempted, Whenever doubts arise, 
A                                        Dm               G                          C 
When songs give place to sighing, When hope within me dies, 
C                               G         C                             F 
I draw the closer to Him, From cares He sets me free, 
G                          C                  G                           C 
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me; 
C      C7             F    F7                C       G      C          
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me. 
 G                       C              G                   C     
I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free; 
C      C7                     F     F7       C                  G7      C     
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.