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Lyr Req: Wash Me in That Precious Blood

31 Jan 03 - 05:58 PM (#879508)
Subject: Lyr Req: 'Wash Me in That Precious Blood'
From: GUEST,Charlie Temple

Does anyone happen to have the lyrics to the verses of this song Ralph Stanley did a few years back? The chorus goes,
And oh my Lord prepare
My sould for that gret day
Oh wash me in that precious blood
And take my sins all away.

Many thanks,

CT

31 Jan 03 - 11:36 PM (#879758)
Subject: Lyr Add: A FEW MORE YEARS SHALL ROLL (H Bonar)
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

Could it be this one?

From http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/f/e/fewmorey.htm:

A FEW MORE YEARS SHALL ROLL
Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
Courtesy of Free Church of Scotland Words: Horatius Bonar, 1842. Bonar wrote these words while superintendent of the Sunday school at the Church of St. James, Leith. It was one of the first hymns he wrote, and the only one he composed specifically for his Sunday school students. It was sung for the first time on New Year's Day, 1843. Bonar published it in his Songs for the Wilderness the following year.

Music: "Leominster," George Walter Martin, 1862
Alternate tunes:
    * "Chalvey," Leighton G. Hayne (1836-1883)
    * "Shawmut," arranged by Lowell Mason, 1844 (uses a shortened version of the lyrics)
    * "St. Andrew," Joseph Barnby (1838-1896)
 
   A few more years shall roll,
   A few more seasons come,
   And we shall be with those that rest
   Asleep within the tomb;
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that great day.
   Refrain
   O wash me in Thy precious blood,
   And take my sins away.
 
   A few more suns shall set
   O'er these dark hills of time,
   And we shall be where suns are not
   A far serener clime:
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that blest day.
 
   A few more storms shall beat
   On this wild rocky shore,
   And we shall be where tempests cease,
   And surges swell no more;
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that calm day.
 
   A few more struggles here,
   A few more partings o'er,
   A few more toils, a few more tears,
   And we shall weep no more:
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that bright day.
 
   A few more Sabbaths here
   Shall cheer us on our way,
   And we shall reach the endless rest,
   Th'eternal Sabbath day;
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that sweet day.
 
   'Tis but a little while,
   And He shall come again
   Who died that we might live, Who lives
   That we with Him may reign;
   Then, O my Lord, prepare
   My soul for that glad day.

31 Jan 03 - 11:42 PM (#879760)
Subject: Lyr Add: A FEW MORE YEARS
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

From http://bluegrasslyrics.com/stanley_song.cfm-recordID=s22958.htm

A Few More Years

   A few more years shall roll, a few more seasons shall come
   Then we shall be with those at rest asleep within the tomb
 
   Then Oh my Lord prepare my soul for that great day
   Wash me in Thy precious blood and take my sins all away
 
   A few more meetings here shall cheer us on our way
   And we shall reach that endless rest on that eternal day
 

01 Feb 03 - 01:00 PM (#880083)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wash Me in That Precious Blood'
From: GUEST

Amazing. Thanks so much. (Shocking to see how badly my friends and I have distorted those lyrics over the years!).

Charles Temple

01 Feb 03 - 01:47 PM (#880114)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wash Me in That Precious Blood'
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

You're very welcome. My first thought was That didn't fit. Lucky for us that it was easy to find. Pretty old song. Now you have some more of the song.