Come Thou Fount (Above All Else)
By: Original Hymn: Robert Robinson, John Wyeth
Key: F
Intro:
DAGD
Verse 1:
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Come Thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace
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Streams of mercy never ceasing, call of songs of loudest praise
Dm A# F Dm Am A# Dm
Teach me some mel-odious sonnet, sung by flam-ing tongues a-bove
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Praise the mount I'm fixed up-on it, mount of Thy re-deeming love
Verse 2:
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Here I raise my Ebe-nezer, hither by Thy help I'm come
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And I hope by Thy good pleasure, safely to ar-rive at home
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Jesus sought me when a stranger, wand'ring from the fold of God
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He to rescue me from danger, inter-posed His precious blood
Verse 3:
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Oh to grace how great a debtor, daily I'm con-strained to be
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Let Thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wand'ring heart to Thee
Dm A# F Dm Am A# Dm
Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love
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Here's my heart Lord take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts a-bove
Bridge:
Dm C/E F Gm F/A A#
(A-bove) all else I a-dore Your name
Dm C/E F A# Dm C
A-bove all else tune my heart to sing Your praise
Dm C/E F Gm F/A A#
A-bove all else I a-dore Your name
Dm C/E F A# Dm C
A-bove all else tune my heart to sing Your praise
Tag:
A#/D C/E
The highest praise, the loudest praise
A# C
To the name a-bove every name