Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing + LYRICS

Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas (2002)

Sufjan Stevens - Hark!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. II

Recorded December 2002

Sufjan Stevens - Angels We Have Heard on High -- 0:47 (instrumental)
Sufjan Stevens - Put the Lights on the Tree -- 1:50
Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing -- 4:45
Sufjan Stevens - I Saw Three Ships -- 2:36
Sufjan Stevens - Only at Christmas Time -- 2:18
Sufjan Stevens - Once in David's Royal City -- 3:45
Sufjan Stevens - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! -- 0:49 (instrumental)
Sufjan Stevens - What Child Is This Anyway? -- 6:51
Sufjan Stevens - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella -- 1:32

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 the mount, Im fixed upon it
Mount of Thy unchanging love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here there by Thy great help Ive come
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily Im constrained to be
Let that grace now, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Heres my heart, oh, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

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 the mount, Im fixed upon it
Mount of Thy unchanging love

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[birdsversusworms]

@Jean1juan almost sounds like a cello at some parts? or perhaps a stand up played with a bow.

[Enkaged]

banjo

[spinasweetness]

@Jean1juan i'm not sure what part you're referring to specifically but i'm pretty sure it's just the low end of an organ. sounds like there's a stand up bass part too.

[Jean1juan]

what is the low instrument i hear the background

[matthewwechter1]

i love this song so much!! keep up the good work!!

[termite4734]

I love the live version of this at the Knitting Factory. With the trumpet. As my old friend George T. used to say, it's "Bad to the bone".

"Here I raise my Ebenezer/hither by thy grace I've come/and I hope by Thy good pleasure/safely to arrive at home."

All I can add is, "amen"