There is a Fountain Filled with Blood

We’re singing this beautiful hymn by William Cowper during the Lord’s Supper this week.  As I was working on our arrangement I realized that there are quite a few different versions that have been *kicked around recently.

Here they are in no particular order.

The Welcome Wagon -
mp3 | leadsheet | buy

on both ‘To Spirit back the mews‘ compilation and ‘Purity of Heart is to will one thing‘ EP.

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Red Mountain Music (Karl Digerness)
mp3 | leadsheet | chord chart | Youtube

Version by Karl Digerness of City Church San Francisco, on the album ‘Depth of Mercy‘

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Indelible Grace Hymnbook
mp3 | leadsheet | chord chart | info

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Christ the King arr.
mp3 | leadsheet

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Traditional
mp3 | leadsheet | midi

Here is a fantastic traditional take by Sojourn Church in Louisville, Ky.  beautiful.
thanks for the link Wes Crawford!

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1 There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there have I, as vile as he,
Washed all my sins away.

3 Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

4 E’er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I’ll sing Thy power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

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* unnecessary allusion to world cup mania.