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Text:Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed
Author:Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Arranger:Nolan Williams, Jr., b. 1969
Composer:Hugh Wilson, 1766-1824

263. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed

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 crimes that I have done,
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut His glories in,
When God, the mighty Maker, died
For man, the creature's 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.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! and did my Savior bleed
Title: Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2001
Scripture:
Topic: Jesus Christ: His Blood
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson, 1766-1824
Arranger: Nolan Williams, Jr., b. 1969
Meter: CM
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Arr. © 2000, GIA Publications, Inc.



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