Key: F
Introduction:
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My song is love unknown, my Savior's love to me
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Love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be
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Oh, who am I that for my sake,
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Oh, who am I that for my sake,
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My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
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He came from heaven's throne salvation to bestow
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But they refused and none the longed-for Christ would know
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This is my friend, my friend indeed,
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This is my friend, my friend indeed,
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Who at my need, His life did spend.
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Sometimes they crowd His way and His sweet praises sing
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Resounding all the day, hosannas to their King
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Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath,
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Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath,
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And for His death they thirst and cry.
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Why, what has my Lord done to cause this rage and spite
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He made the lame to run, and gave the blind their sight
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What injuries, yet these are why,
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What injuries, yet these are why,
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The Lord Most High so cruelly dies.
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With angry shouts they have my dear Lord done away
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A murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay
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Yet willingly, He bears the shame,
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Yet willingly, He bears the shame,
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That through His name all might be free.
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Here might I stay and sing of Him my soul adores
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Never was love, dear King, never was grief like Yours
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This is my friend in whose sweet praise,
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This is my friend in whose sweet praise,
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I, all my days would gladly spend.