Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing is not a hymn that I’ve known for a long time. But I enjoy the biblical imagery it invokes, imagery that reminds us that we experience the faithfulness of God together with all His people in every age.
Robert Robinson’s lyrics and John Wyeth’s tune Nettleton combine in such way that the words to the song seem to flow with the melody in such a way that seemed indivisible.
Good luck writing another tune for this one.
A four verse set of lyrics on the Hymntime site reveals that the second verse is actually composed of the second half and first half of the original’s second and third verses.
Here’s a typical setting of the lyrics.
1.
Come, thou Fount of ev’ry 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;
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of God’s unchanging love.
2.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by thy help I’m come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand’ring 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 that grace now, like a fetter,
Bind my wand’ring 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.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a rendition for the folk trio Ordinary Time. Here it is again. I recommend you visit their site and consider downloading their albums.
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