O Sacred Head Now Wounded

𝄞: C 🕑: 4/4 CCLI: 1257208 url 🖉 Paul Gerhardt, Marty Parks © 1993 Singspiration Music

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O sacred Head now wound- ed, with grief and shame weighed down

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Now scornfully sur-round- ed, with thorns Thine on- ly crown

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How pale Thou art with an- guish, with sore abuse and scorn

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How does that vis- age lan- guish which once was bright as morn!

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What Thou my Lord hast suf- fered was all for sin-ners' gain

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All mine was the trans-gression, but Thine the deadly pain

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Lo here I fall, my Sav- ior, 'tis I deserve Thy place

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Look on me with Thy fa- vor; as-sist me with Thy grace

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What language shall I bor row to thank Thee dearest Friend,

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For this Thy dy- ing sor- row, Thy pity without end?

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O make me Thine for- ev- er, and should I fainting be,

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Lord let me nev- er, nev- er outlive my love for Thee