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Text:Alas! and did my Savior bleed
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:MANAOH
Composer:Gioachimo Rossini, 1792-1808

64. Alas! and did my Savior bleed

1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm 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 Thus might I hide my blushing face,
While His dear cross appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt mine eyes to tears.

5 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
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: C. M. No. 2
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: The Church Year: Passion
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate Tune: AVON, # 292
Tune Information
Name: MANAOH
Composer: Gioachimo Rossini, 1792-1808
Meter: C. M. No. 2
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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