[Alas! and did my Savior bleed] (Clark)

Composer: F. A. Clark

F. A. Clark (Francis A.) was a respected Black musician and composer from Philadelphia. Dianne Shapiro, from "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music," by Horace Clarence Boyer, in The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 103-132 (retrieved online from JSTOR, 8/27/2020) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Alas! and did my Savior bleed] (Clark)
Composer: F. A. Clark
Incipit: 34556 71154 32525
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed

Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sovereign die!
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?

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