A PEASANT GIRL IN MEXICO, A TEACHER IN BOMBAY
                                                                          IN AFRICA A FISHERMAN, A HOUSEWIFE IN L.A.
                                                                          PEOPLE JUST PEOPLE IN EVERY SINGLE LAND
                                                                          WHO'VE NEVER KNOWN THE SAVIOR'S LOVE
                                                                          OR FELT HIS HEALING HAND

                                                                          UNTOLD MILLIONS REMAIN UNTOLD
                                                                          PEOPLE HUNGRY FOR THE BREAD THAT FEEDS THE SOUL
                                                                          MULTITUDES UNHEARD OF HAVE YET TO HEAR
                                                                          WE MUST GO WE MUST PREACH
                                                                          WE MUST MAKE THE MESSAGE CLEAR
                                                                          THAT JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES

                                                                          ACROSS THE WORLD FROM WHERE WE LIVE
                                                                          AND RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET
                                                                          NEIGHBORS WE KNOW VERY WELL
                                                                          AND SOULS WE'LL NEVER MEET
                                                                          PEOPLE JUST PEOPLE TRYING TO FIND THEIR WAY
                                                                          SEARCHING IN THE DARKNESS FOR THE LIGHT OF DAY

                                                                           OH THE FIELDS ARE WHITE UNTO HARVEST
                                                                           BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW
                                                                           BUT BY HIS MIGHT THE WORLD WILL KNOW
                                                                           THERE IS HOPE IN GOD
                                                                           THERE IS LIFE BRAND NEW

 
       
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****SONGWRITING NOTES****
*We were attending a little country church just down the road from us shortly after moving to Nashville. One Sunday the man who was supposed to preach had gotten hurt and another filled in for him. He was talking about missions and mentioned a phrase---"untold thousands remain untold"---that had possibly been said a million times but I myself had never heard it. It stuck with me and this song came directly from that phrase.

It ended up being recorded by Dallas Holm and was fairly popular. Which has made me wonder many times---what if that original speaker hadn't gotten hurt? His pain led to a wonderful blessing.

*I wanted the title to be "Untold Millions" because there were so many other songs called "Jesus Saves". My publisher won out, as usual, and I really didn't have a problem with it. It is funny to me, though, that to this day, people still mention the song to me as "Untold Millions"---not because I ever called it that but I guess because that's what stuck with them.

*I really liked Dallas Holm's version, but always felt it was a tad too slow. There. I said it.