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Blue Eve 11s

By Matthew Parkinson

Key
B minor
Type
Plain tune
Time signature
3
2
Composed
2021
Text
John Stocker, 1776

Description

A minor arrangement of 72b Bellevue from the Sacred Harp.


Text

Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,
The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue;
Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last,
Hath won my affections and bound my soul fast.

Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,
Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;
Dissolved by thy sunshine I fall to the ground,
And weep to the praise of the mercy I found.

Thy mercy in Jesus excempts me from hell,
Its glories I'll sing and its wonders I'll tell;
'Twas Jesus, my friend, when he hung on the tree,
Who opened the channel of mercy for me.