Come Thou Fount (traditional)

Come Thou Fount

Intro:

  C G F G Am7 C
| x / / | x / / | x x x      | x / / |

Verse 1:

  C G
Come Thou Fout of every blessing
  F G Am7 C
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
  C G
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
  F G Am7 C
Call for songs of loudest praise
  F Am
Teach me some melodious sonnet
  F C
Sung by flaming tongues above
  C G
Praise the mount! I'm fixed up - on it
  F G Am7 C
Mount of Thy re - deeming love

Verse 2:

  C G
Here I raise my Ebe - nezer
  F G Am7 C
Hither by Thy help I come
  C G
And I hope, by Thy good pleaseure
  F G Am7 C
Safely to a - rrive at home
  F Am
Jesus sought me when a stranger
  F C
Wandering from the fold of God
  C G
He to rescue me from danger
  F G Am7 C
Inter - posed His precious blood

Verse 3:

  C G
Oh to grace how great a debtor
  F G Am7 C
Daily I'm con - strained to be
  C G
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter
  F G Am7 C
Bind my wan - d'ring heart to Thee
  F Am
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
  F C
Prone to leave the God I love
  C G
Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it
  F G Am7 C
Seal it for Thy courts a - bove

Verse 4:

  C G
O that day when freed from sinning
  F G Am7 C
I shall see Thy lovely face
  C G
Clothed then in blood washed linen
  F G Am7 C
How I'll sing Thy sovereign grace
  F Am
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry
  F C
Take my ransomed soul a - way
  C G
Send thine angels now to carry
  F G Am7 C
Me to realms of endless day

Note: Transpose up for sharps and down for flats.

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