1. Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonely and long for heaven and home, When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is he: 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. 2. "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. (Refrain) 3. Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise, when song gives 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. (Refrain)