How Seet And Awful Is The Place St Columba chords by Songs Of Praise

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:

    G         Bm    C      G
How sweet and awful is the place

     G          Bm     D
With Christ within the doors,

      G   Am      Bm      Em
While everlasting love displays

    G        D  C   G
The choicest of her stores.

Verse 2:

      G       Bm         C       G
While all our hearts and all our songs

     G    Bm       D
Join to admire the feast,

     G     Am        Bm       Em
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,

       G       D C G
“Lord, why was I a guest?”


Verse 3:

    G     Bm      C        G
Why was I made to hear Thy voice,

    G     Bm            D
And enter while there’s room,

     G         Am     Bm       Em
When thousands make a wretched choice,

    G      D      C    G
And rather starve than come?”


Verse 4:

      G        Bm        C          G
’Twas the same love that spread the feast

     G       Bm      D
That sweetly drew us in;

     G      Am    Bm         Em
Else we had still refused to taste,

    G        D  C   G
And perished in our sin.


Verse 5:

  G      Bm       C     G
Pity the nations, O our God,

   G          Bm       D
Constrain the earth to come;

     G      Am      Bm    Em
Send Thy victorious Word abroad,

    G         D    C    G
And bring the strangers home.


Verse 6:

   G       Bm      C        G
We long to see Thy churches full,

     G       Bm     D
That all the chosen race

    G        Am        Bm        Em
May with one voice and heart and soul,

     G     D  C    G
Sing Thy redeeming grace.