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Text: | Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | MARTYRDOM |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Robert Smith |
Composer: | Hugh Wilson |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Alas! And did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sovereign die!
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I!
2 Was it for sins that I have done
he suffered on the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
3 Well might the sun in darkness hide
and shut its glories in,
when Christ, the great Redeemer, died
for human creatures' sin.
4 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe;
here, Lord, I give myself away;
'tis all that I can do.
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First Line: | Alas! And did my Savior bleed |
Title: | Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1707) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Atonement; Christian Year: Palm Sunday; Christian Year: Maundy Thursday(4 more...) |
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Name: | MARTYRDOM |
Composer: | Hugh Wilson (1800 c.) |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Robert Smith (1825) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Much like this author’s “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” (nos. 223, 224), this more introspective treatment of Christ’s crucifixion calls forth self-sacrifice from the beholder. It is set here to a tune that may well have originated as an 18th-century Scottish folk song.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |