Lyrics:
Verse 1 (sung at the beginning)
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, I'm fixed upon it
Mount of thy redeeming love
Verse 2 (sung at the end)
Here I raise to thee an altar [my ebenezer]
Hither by thy help I've 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
Verse 3
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it
Seal it for thy courts above
Amen
Much of the information from this episode is drawn from Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories, along with some of the finest information Google could furnish.
Music and audio editing by Mike Tetrault, and graphics provided by Brokerage Brewing Company.
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