Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Robert Robinson · 1758 · tune NETTLETON
Key of D · public domain
Words
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 Thy redeeming love
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
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
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
The story
Robert Robinson was twenty-two and had been a Christian for three years. The story that he later wandered from the faith and was found weeping over his own hymn on a coach is probably not true, though it has been repeated for two centuries, which tells you something about how the third verse lands. Here I raise mine Ebenezer is the line most people sing without knowing. In 1 Samuel 7 the Philistines are driven back and Samuel sets up a stone between Mizpeh and Shen and calls it Ebenezer, saying hitherto hath the LORD helped us. It is a rock in a field marking the exact spot where God turned up. That is what you are singing about.
Chords in D
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Themes
Grace · Repentance · Testimony