O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Words and music by Paul Gerhardt · tr. James W. Alexander · 1830
Key of C · 66 BPM · 4/4 · Easter,Lament · Isaiah 53:5
Verse 1
O sacred head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
now scornfully surrounded with thorns, thine only crown:
o sacred head, what glory, what bliss till now was thine!
Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call thee mine.
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