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Text:You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
Tune:[My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
Harmonizer:Verolga Nix, 1933-

128. You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'

Refrain:
You hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin,’
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
You hear the lambs a-cryin’,
hear the lambs a cryin’,
hear the lambs a-cryin’,
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.

1 My Savior spoke these words so sweet,
O Shepherd, feed my sheep,
sayin’, "Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep.”
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]

2 O Lord, I love Thee, Thou dost know;
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
O give me grace to love Thee more.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]

3 Wasn’t that an awful shame?
O Shepherd, feed my sheep.
He hung three hours in mortal pain.
O Shepherd, feed my sheep. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: My Savior spoke these words so sweet
Title: You Hear the Lambs a-Cryin'
Refrain First Line: You hear the lambs a-cryin'
Language: English
Publication Date: 1981
Topic: Negro Spirituals and Afro-American Liberation Songs
Source: Traditional
Tune Information
Name: [My Savior spoke these words so sweet]
Harmonizer: Verolga Nix, 1933-
Key: a minor or modal
Source: Traditional
Copyright: Harm. © 1981 by Abingdon



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