Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed? Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

OCTOBER (C.M.) Mitch Cervinka* Score Alternate tunes: 1 | 2

A-las! and did my Sa-vior bleed
   And did my Sov-ereign die?
Would He de-vote that sa-cred Head
   For such a worm as I?

Was it for crimes that I have done
   He groaned up-on the tree?
A-maz-ing pit-y! Grace un-known!
   And love be-yond de-gree!

Well might the sun in dark-ness hide
   And shut his glo-ries in,
When Christ, the great Cre-a-tor died
   For man the crea-ture's sin.

Thus might I hide my blush-ing face
   While His dear cross ap-pears,
Dis-solve my heart in thank-ful-ness,
   And melt mine eyes to tears.

But drops of grief can ne'er re-pay
   The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give my-self a-way--
   'Tis all that I can do.

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*Music: Composed 1997 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.