| Text: | Blessed Redeemer |
| Author: | Avis B. Christiansen |
| Tune: | REDEEMER |
| Composer: | Harry Dixon Loes |
1 Up Calv'ry's mountain one dreadful morn
Walked Christ, my Savior, weary and worn;
Facing for sinners death on the cross,
That He might save them from endless loss.
Chorus:
Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer!
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree;
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading—
Blind and unheeding— dying for me!
2 "Father, forgive them!" thus did He pray,
E'en while His lifeblood flowed fast away;
Praying for sinners while in such woe–
No one but Jesus ever loved so. [Chorus]
3 O how I love Him, Savior and Friend,
How can my praises ever find end?
Thro' years unnumbered on heaven's shore,
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore. [Chorus]
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Up Calv'ry's mountain, one dreadful morn |
| Title: | Blessed Redeemer |
| Author: | Avis B. Christiansen |
| Refrain First Line: | Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer! |
| Meter: | 9.9.9.9. with Chorus |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Topic: | Jesus, Our Love for Him; Redemption, Salvation, Atonement |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | REDEEMER |
| Composer: | Harry Dixon Loes |
| Meter: | 9.9.9.9. with Chorus |
| Key: | D Major |
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