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Hosannas On My Tongue

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Hosannas On My Tongue
Words: Isaac Watts, 1748, from the Gadsby Hymnal #409, altered by Cameron Gray. Music: Cameron Gray, 2008. ©2008 Rough Harbor Music.

To Him who loved me first
While I was in my sin
To Him who bore that curse
Just to make me safe in Him
To Him who formed my heart anew
Is endless praise and glory due
Is endless glory due

CHORUS:
The Father’s love shall ever run
Through my immortal song
I bring to God the Saving Son
Hosannas on my tongue
Hosannas on my tongue

Let every saint above
And angel around the throne
Forever bless and love
The holy Three-in-One
For mercy wrought by Spirit’s grace
I join my heart in grateful praise
I join my heart in praise

Scripture References
1 John 4:19; Eph 2:4-5; Gal 3:13; Eze 36:26; Mat 21:15; Ps 118:25-26; Rev 7:9-12

Hosanna: From the Hebrew “Hoshana”, meaning please save or save now.

Notes
Found these Isaac Watts lyrics in Gadsby’s and put them to music. I tweaked the words a bit, but not too much.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. – C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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Heart Like Mine

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Heart Like Mine
Based on hymn by John Newton (Gadsby, 999), c. 1779; altered & arr. by Cameron Gray. Music: Cameron Gray, 2007.

O Lord, with a heart like mine,
‘Less you hold me fast
I feel that I must and shall decline,
And leave my Lord at last
And leave my Lord at last.

You alone have power, I know,
To save a wretch like me,
Where or to whom shall I go
If I should turn from Thee?
If I should turn from Thee

No voice but Thine can give me rest,
No strength my fears depart,
No love but Thine can make me blessed,
Or satisfy my heart
Or satisfy my heart

O Lord, with a heart like mine

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Go On, Thou Mighty God

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Go On, Thou Mighty God
©2006 Rough Harbor Music. Words: William Gadsby,1838; Music: Cameron Gray, 2006.

Go on, Thou mighty God
Thy wonders to make known,
Til every sinner bought with blood
Shall trust in Thee alone.

May grace triumphant reign
And Christ exalted be
May sinners calling on Thy Name
Thy great salvation see.

May mercy, truth and peace
Fill each believer’s soul,
And by the Spirit of Thy grace
Our wand’ring hearts control.

Thus let Thy kingdom come
And free salvation reign,
Till all Thy saints arrive at home
To never part again.

Gloria, Gloria!
Ad maiorem dei gloriam*
Gloria!

*To the greater glory of God

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In Darkest Shades

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In Darkest Shades
Words & Music by Cameron Gray (based on a hymn by Isaac Watts, 1748, Gadsby 1011). ©2007 Rough Harbor Music.

My God, my God,
Thou spring of all my joy,
Thou life of my delight,
Thou glory of my brightest day,
Thou comfort of my night—
In darkest shades,
If Thou would but appear,
My dawning is begun;
Thou art my soul’s sweet morning star
And Thou my rising sun.

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My Long-Awaited Christ

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My Long Awaited Christ
©2007 Rough Harbor Music. Words & Music by Cameron Gray

my long-awaited Christ has come
run and tell your brother
run and tell your dad and your mom
no more, no more, no more
will the darkness ever win
a new day is dawning
come and see the new day begin.

my long-awaited Christ has come
run and tell your neighbor
what Jesus has done
no more, no more, no more
anger and despair
got a home over yonder
and soon I’ll be there.

halleluia

my long-awaited Christ has come
such a dark road he traveled
just to bring me home
no more, no more, no more
will I wonder if I’m loved
evermore, evermore, evermore
shall my soul praise the Lord.

halleluia

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Rejoice, Rejoice

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Rejoice, Rejoice
Words & Music: Cameron Gray, based on lyrics by Joseph Hart, (Gadsby, 725 & 787), c. 1768.

Come, come away with me
In meditations fair,
Let us to Golgotha go
And find my Savior there;
Let me in His wounded side
Wash away my shame,
And in that fountain opened wide
Lose all my guilty stain.

Rise up and rejoice
Rise up and rejoice
Rise up and rejoice
Rise up and rejoice
Lift up and sing;
With my heart and my voice
To Jesus my King

Come, come away with me,
Leave your sorrows behind;
Don’t you know that your life is hid
In the righteousness of Christ?
O the riches of His grace,
Enough to go around;
For who of mercy should despair
Since I have mercy found?

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Ransomed Song

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Ransomed Song
Words: Cameron Gray, 2007 (based on a hymn by James Allen & William Batty, Gadsby 952, c. 1786). Music: Cameron Gray. ©2007 Rough Harbor Music

Unite our hearts in Thee, dear Lamb,
Thy blood has made us one,
To love and praise Thy gracious Name
Gathered around Thy throne,
Gathered around Thy throne.

Here manifest Thyself in peace,
Thy tender mercies show,
Come breathe on us Thy word of grace,
Move us each to love,
Move us each to love.

Now let each broken, blood-bought soul rejoice,
Now let us hymn our risen Christ,
Now let each nation, color, tongue and tribe
Our ransomed song unite,
Our ransomed song unite.

Unite our hearts in Thee, dear Lamb,
Thy blood has made us one,
To love and praise Thy gracious Name
Gathered around Thy throne,

All Singing
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy
Worthy is the Lamb to receive glory

Scripture References:
Rev 5:1-14

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You Are More Faithful

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You Are More Faithful
©2009 Rough Harbor Music. Words & Music: Cameron Gray, 2009

You are more faithful
Than a sea bringing waves to the shore,
Stars in the heavens,
Your mercies outnumber them all.

Forever faithful,
Your mercies are new every day,
Sunrise to sunrise,
Boundless horizons of grace.

CHORUS:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
The LORD, He is the Faithful One,
To Him all praises bring;
Alleluia! Alleluia!
I lift my voice to sing
I lift my voice to sing
(In the shelter of Your wing)

You are more faithful,
Faithful and mighty to save,
Calling Your people,
We enter Your courts singing praise.

(Repeat Chorus)

Scripture References
Lam 3:21-24; Ps 100:1-5; Ps 136:9; Ps 71:22; 2 Thes 3:3

Notes
These lyrics were written over a few days at a run-down monastery built into the side of a mountain above Big Sur, California. The monastery overlooks a huge expanse of California coastline, with ocean and sky stretching as far as the eye can see. All day long the green-blue sea rolls in waves to the rocky shore. Each night thousands of stars brighten the ink sky. Every dawn unveils the vast grandeur once again. An ocean brings waves to the shore, thousands each day, for millennia… His faithfulness will outlast it. Countless stars dusting and spinning through a million milky ways… His kindnesses outnumber them. In all their immensity, only limited reflections of their Creator.

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In You Alone

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In You Alone
©2007 Rough Harbor Music. Words & Music by Cameron Gray.

I will find rest for my soul
In you alone, in you alone;
All of my hope and my home
In you alone, in you alone.
There is a river whose streams
Make glad my soul, make glad my soul;
Draw me to drink of it deep,
In you alone, in you alone.

Love me in all of my shame,
In you alone, in you alone;
Wed me, and give me your name,
In you alone, in you alone.
Give me your promise so true
A heart of stone, a heart of stone,
Couldn’t help but fall in love with you,
With you alone, with you alone.

I will find rest for my soul,
All of my hope and my home;
There is a river whose streams
Draw me to drink of it deep;
Love me in all of shame,
Wed me and give me your name;
Give me your promise so true
Can’t help but fall in love with you.

I will find rest for my soul
In you alone, in you alone.

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When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (Gray)

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When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Words: Isaac Watts, 1707. Music: American folk tune, arr. Cameron Gray.

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God;
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.