Since our Band's approach includes some text-editing, I'm posting the songs as we do them even though they may be posted elsewhere at Mudcat.

This one has quite a pretty, cheerful tune that lends itself well to acoustic instrumentation.

~S~

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ALAS! AND DID MY SAVIOR BLEED/AT THE CROSS
Words: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707; Ralph E. Hudson wrote the refrain in 1885.

1. Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote His sacred head
For such a worm as I?

REFRAIN:
At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

2. Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, Thine—
And bathed in its own blood—
While all exposed to wrath divine
The glorious Sufferer stood.

3. Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

4. Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut its glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker died,
For man the creature's sin.

5. Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt mine eyes to tears.

6. But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give my self away
'Tis all that I can do.

SH