The Solid Rock
By: Edward Mote, William Batchelder Bradbury
Key: A
Verse 1:
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My hope is built on nothing less
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Than Jesus' blood and righteous-ness
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I dare not trust the sweetest frame
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But wholly lean on Jesus' name
Chorus:
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On Christ the solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
Verse 2:
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When darkness veils His lovely face
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I rest on his un-changing grace
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In ev'ry high and stormy gale
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My anchor holds with-in the veil
Verse 3:
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His oath, His cove-nant, His blood
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Su-pport me in the whelming flood
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When all around my soul gives way
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He then is all my hope and stay
Verse 4:
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When He shall come with trumpet sound
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O may I then in Him be found
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Dressed in His righteous-ness alone
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Fault-less to stand be-fore the throne