Calvary (Carradine)
Authors: B. Carradine • Composers: L. L. Pickett • Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.9. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1896
Score (png): http://www.freehymnal.com/png/calvary-carradine.png.
1. There’s a hill lone and gray,
In a land far away,
In a country beyond the blue sea,
Where beneath that fair sky,
Went a Man forth to die,
For the world and for you and for me.
Chorus (for Verses 1-5):
Oh, it bows down my heart,
And the teardrops will start,
When in mem’ry that gray hill I see;
For ’twas there on its side
Jesus suffer’d and died,
To redeem a poor sinner like me.
2. Behold! faint on the road,
‘Neath the world’s heavy load,
Comes a thorn-crowned Man on the way!
With a cross He is bow’d,
But still on thro’ the crow
He’s ascending that hill lone and gray.
3. Hark, I hear the dull blow
Of the hammer swung low,
They are nailing my Lord to the tree!
And the cross they upraise
While the multitude gaze
On the blest Lamb of dark Calvary!
4. How they mock Him in death
To His last lab’ring breath,
While His friends sadly weep o’er the way!
But tho’ lonely and faint
Still no word of complaint
Fell from Him on that hillock of gray.
5. Then the darkness came down,
And the rocks rent around,
And a cry pierc’d the sad-laden air!
‘Twas the voice of our King,
Who receiv’d death’s dark sting,
All to save us from endless despair.
6. Let the sun hide its face,
Let the earth reel apace,
Over men who their Savior have slain!
But, behold! from the sod
Comes the blessed Lamb of God,
Who was slain, but is risen again.
Chorus (for Verse 6):
Shout aloud, then, my soul,
Let the glad tidings rolls
From the land to the ends of the sea!
Jesus conquer’d the grave,
And has risen to save
The whole world, and to make us all free.