LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 6 6 8 8 extended
| | Writer(s): | Samuel Crossman
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1664
| | Bible Refs: | Mt 21:9; Mt 27:22; Mk 11:9; Mk 15:13; Lk 19:38; Lk 23:21; Jn 12:13; Jn 19:6; Rm 5:8; Eph 3:19
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 155
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 257
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 143
| Church Family Worship
| 1988
| 215
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 381
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 231
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 184
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 112
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 478
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 303
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 63
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 102
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 173
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 136
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 169
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 463
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 346
| Living Praise
|
| 160
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 144
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 86
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 76
| Sing Glory
| 1999
| 384
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 1991
| 400
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 80
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 127
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 596
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 442
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 458
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 341
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MUSIC
 Songs of Fellowship 1
| 400
| D
| Living Praise
| 160
| Eb
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 143
| Eb
| Hymns of Faith
| 169
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 173
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 373
| Eb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 144
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. My song is love unknown;
My Saviour’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they may lovely be.
O who am I,
That for my sake,
|: My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
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2. He came from His blest throne,
Salvation to bestow:
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But O my friend!
My Friend indeed,
|: Who at my need
His life did spend.
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3. Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day,
Hosannas to their King.
Then: Crucify!
Is all their breath,
|: And for His death
They thirst and cry.
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4. Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries:
Yet they at these
|: Themselves displease,
And ‘gainst him rise.
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5. They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made a way;
A murderer they save;
The Prince of life they slay.
Yet cheerful He
To suffering goes,
|: That He His foes
From thence might free.
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6. In life, no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death, no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav’n was His home;
|: But mine the tomb
Wherein He lay.
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7. Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my Friend,
In whose sweet praise
|: I all my days
Could gladly spend.
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