Sacred Harp 333 Family Circle

Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
www.wmshc.org

Image from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: R. E. Brown & B. F. White, 1850
Words: Robert Robinson, 1758
Meter: 8s,7s (8,7,8,7)

Come, Thou Fount of evry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.

Chorus:

Bless the Lord, Oh my soul!
Praise the Lord, Oh my brother!
Shout and sing, Oh my sister!
Give Him glory, Oh my father!
And rejoice, Oh my mother!
And well travel on together,
And well join heart and hands for Canaan.

Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount, Oh fix me on it,
Mount of Gods unchanging love.

(Chorus)

Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily Im constrained to be!
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandring heart to Thee.

(Chorus)

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[KE5HOB]

I always get so lost on choruses such as this. The music moves too fast for my eyes!