"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"

"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" BYU Inauguration Combined Choirs and Orchestra

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Sep 22, 2023

BYU's combined choirs, with the BYU Philharmonic Orchestra, perform "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" during the inauguration of President C. Shane Reese Sept. 19, 2023. “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” Lyrics by Robert Robinson Melody from Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music Arranged by Mack Wilberg Conducted by R. Andrew Crane Special thanks to the BYU School of Music 'Come, thou fount of every blessing' (no. 4 of 'Four American Folk Hymns') arranged by Mack Wilberg © Oxford University Press Inc. 1998. Assigned to Oxford University Press 2010. Licensed by Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Video provided by BYU Broadcasting and BYU University Communications (BYU Video)

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Lyrics:

 

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

I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it

Mount of thy redeeming love .

 

Here I raise my Ebenezer

Hither by thy help I come

And I hope by thy good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home .

 

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 .

 

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God

He to rescue me from danger Interposed

His precious blood (Precious blood) .

 

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 .

 

O 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, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above

 

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1

Come, thou Fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing thy grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise. T

each me ever to adore Thee,

May I still Thy goodness prove,

While the hope of endless glory

Fills my heart with joy and love.

 

 

2

Here I raise mine 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.

 

 

3

O, to grace how great a debtor

Daily I’m constrained to be!

Let thy goodness, like a fetter,

Bind me closer still to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love;

Here’s my heart–O, take and seal it,

Seal it for thy courts above.