The Celebration Hymnal ‎#11

11. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

1 Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above,
Praise His name--I'm fixed upon it--
Name of God's redeeming love.

2 Hitherto Thy love has blest me;
Thou hast bro't me to this place;
And I know Thy hand will bring me
Safely home by Thy good grace.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Bo't me with His precious blood.

3 O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring 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.

Text Information

• First Line: Come, Thou Fount of every blessing
• Title: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
• Author: Robert Robinson
• Adapter: Margaret Clarkson
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1997
• Topic: Praise the Lord; Adoration and Praise: God Our Father; Aspiration and Consecration
• Notes: Optional choral ending

Tune Information

• Name: NETTLETON
• Arranger (last stanza setting and choral ending): Carl Seal
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
• Key: D Major
• Source: Traditional American melody; John Wyeth's Respository of Sacred Music, 1813
• Copyright: Arr. ⓒ Copyright 1997 by Integrity's Hosanna! Music and Word Music (a div. of WORD MUSIC)
• Notes: Optional last stanza setting in E-Flat Major Optional choral ending