Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
(🎸 Intro: C, 2 bars)
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
My song is love unknown, my Savior's love to me
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
Oh, who am I that for my sake
FF G+G
Oh, who am I that for my sake
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC (strum C, 1 extra bar between verses)
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
He came from heaven's throne salvation to bestow
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
But they refused and none the longed-for Christ would know
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
This is my friend, my friend indeed
FF G+G
This is my friend, my friend indeed
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC
Who at my need, His life did spend
🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Sometimes they crowd His way and His sweet praises sing
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Resounding all the day, hosannas to their King
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath
FF G+G
Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC
And for His death they thirst and cry
🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Why, what has my Lord done to cause this rage and spite
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
He made the lame to run, and gave the blind their sight
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
What injuries, yet these are why
FF G+G
What injuries, yet these are why
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC
The Lord Most High so cruelly dies
🎸 Verse 5:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
With angry shouts they have my dear Lord done away
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
A augmentedA murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
Yet willingly, He bears the shame
FF G+G
Yet willingly, He bears the shame
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC
That through His name all might be free
🎸 Verse 6:
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Here might I stay and sing of Him my soul adores
C majorC C majorC FF C majorC
Nev-er was love, dear King, never was grief like Yours
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G
This is my friend in whose sweet praise
FF G+G
This is my friend in whose sweet praise
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC (🎸 Outro: C, 2 extra bars)
I, all my days would glad-ly spend