C G
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
F G C
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
C G
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
F G C
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Am F
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
C F
Sung by flaming tongues above.
C G
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
F G C
Mount of Thy redeeming love.
Sorrow I shall have in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my praises ever;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clo-thed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.
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December 10, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi again
For the 5th and 6th lines, I think these chords sound better:
Teach me [Am]some mel[F]odious [C]sonnet,
Sung by [Am]flaming [F]tongues a[C]bove.
This is another great old song.
I think we had it in a songbook from a crusade run by Southern Baptists from Missouri in the later 60s.
May 11, 2009 at 3:28 am
I concur. both work fine. I play the mandolin and they both sound good. I think I prefer your version slightly better David.
July 24, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Thank you!
Because of hymns like these I’m very thankful for what you offer on this blog.
Keep offering new hymns!
September 5, 2009 at 5:20 am
Thank you so much for this blog! My family and I are so blessed to be able to worship with my rudimentary guitar skills, and this offering is a huge help. My 7 year old really wanted me to learn “Rock of Ages,” so that’s how I found you.