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O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble

Meter: 10.10 with refrain Appears in 214 hymnals First Line: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Lyrics: 1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when they crucified my Lord? 2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? 3 Were you there when they pierced him in the side? Were you there when they pierced him in the side? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when they pierced him in the side? 4 Were you there when the sun refused to shine? Were you there when the sun refused to shine? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when the sun refused to shine? 5 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? 6 Were you there when he rose from out the tomb? Were you there when he rose from out the tomb? O--sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; Were you there when he rose from out the tomb? Topics: The Christian Year Passiontide Used With Tune: WERE YOU THERE? Text Sources: Negro Spiritual

Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove

Author: Simon Browne, 1680-1732 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 601 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove, With light and comfort from above; Be thou our guardian, thou our guide, O'er every thought and step preside. 2 The light of truth to us display, And make us know and choose thy way; Plant faith and love in every heart, That we from God may ne'er depart. 3 Lead us to Christ, the living Way, Nor let us from our shepherd stray; Lead us to holiness, the road That brings us to our home in God. 4 Lead us to heaven, that we may share Fulness of joy for ever there; Lead us to God, the heart's true rest, To dwell with him, for ever blest. Topics: Pentecost or Whitsunday; Confirmation Used With Tune: HAWKHURST

Virgin born, we bow before thee

Author: Bishop R. Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 8.8.7.7 D Appears in 31 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Virgin born, we bow before thee: Blessèd was the womb that bore thee: Mary, Mother meek and mild. Blessèd was she in her Child. Blessèd was the breast that fed thee: Blessèd was the hand that led thee; Blessèd was the parent's eye That watched thy slumbering infancy. 2 Blessèd she by all creation. Who brought forth the world's salvation. And blessèd they for ever blest. Who love thee most and serve thee best. Virgin born we bow before thee: Blessèd was the womb that bore thee: Mary, Mother meek and mild, Blessèd was she in her Child. Topics: The Blessed Virgin Mary; The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holy Days: Proper; The Presentation of Christ in the Temple February 2nd; St. Joseph of Nazareth March 19th; The Annunciation March 25th Used With Tune: MON DIEU, PRÊTE MOI L'OREILLE

All people that on earth do dwell

Author: William Kethe, d. 1594 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 718 hymnals Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him, and rejoice. 2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, Without our aid he did us make; We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take. 3 O enter then his gates with praise, Approach with joy his courts unto; Praise, laud, and bless his name always, For it is seemly so to do. 4 For why? the Lord our God is good: His mercy is for ever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom heaven and earth adore, From men and from the Angel-host Be praise and glory evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH

For all thy saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For all thy saints, O Lord, Who strove in thee to live, Who followed thee, obeyed, adored, Our grateful hymn receive. 2 For all thy saints, O Lord, Who strove in thee to die, Who counted thee their great reward, Accept our thankful cry. 3 O Lord, thy name we bless, And humbly pray that we May follow them in holiness Who lived and died in thee. 4 Thine earthly members fit To join thy saints above, In one communion ever knit, One fellowship of love. 5 All praise to thee, O Lord, The Father and the Son And Holy Spirit, God adored While endless ages run. Amen. Topics: The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holidays: General; Common of Saints; All Saints November 1st Used With Tune: MOUNT EPHRAIM

O thou who camest from above

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 176 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Thou who camest from above, The pure celestial fire to impart, Kindle a flame of sacred love On the mean altar of my heart. 2 There let it for thy glory burn With inextinguishable blaze, And trembling to its source return In humble prayer, and fervent praise. 3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire To work, and speak, and think for thee; Still let me guard the holy fire, And still stir up the gift in me. 4 Ready for all thy perfect will, My acts of faith and love repeat, Till death thy endless mercies seal, And make my sacrifice complete. Topics: Confirmation; Ordination Used With Tune: HEREFORD

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

Author: St John of Damascus, c. 750; J. M. Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 379 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness; God hath brought His Israel Into joy from sadness; Loosed from Pharoah's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daughters; Led them with unmoistened foot Through the Red Sea waters. 2 'Tis the spring of souls to-day: Christ hath burst His prison, And from three days' sleep in death As a sun hath risen; All the winter of our sins, Long and dark, is flying From his light, to whom we give Laud and praise undying. 3 Now the queen of seasons, bright With the day of splendour, With the royal feast of feasts, Comes its joy to render; Comes to glad Jerusalem, Who with true affection Welcomes in unwearied strains Jesu's Resurrection. 4 Neither might the gates of death, Nor the tomb's dark portal, Nor the watchers, nor the seal, Hold thee as a mortal; But today amidst thine own Thou didst stand, bestowing That thy peace which evermore Passeth human knowing. Topics: The Christian Year Eastertide Used With Tune: AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM Text Sources: Greek

Glory to thee, my God, this night

Author: Thomas Ken, 1637-1711 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,046 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Glory to thee, my God, this night For all the blessings of the light; Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath thy own almighty wings. 2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done, That with the world, myself and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 3 Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the aweful day. 4 O may my soul on thee repose, And with sweet sleep my eyelids close, Sleep that may me more vigorous make To serve my God when I awake. 5 Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise him all creatures here below, Praise him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Topics: Times and Seasons Evening Used With Tune: TALLIS'S CANON

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford, 1810-71 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 723 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest-home! All be safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide For our wants to be supplied; Come to God’s own temple, come; Raise the song of harvest-home! 2 All the world is God’s own field, Fruit unto his praise to yield; Wheat and tares together sown, Unto joy or sorrow grown; First the blade and then the ear, Then the full corn shall appear: Grant, O harvest Lord, that we Wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, And shall take his harvest home; From his field shall purge away All that doth offend, that day; Give his angels charge at last In the fire the tares to cast, But the fruitful ears to store in his garner evermore. 4 Then, thou Church triumphant, come. Raise the song of harvest-home; All be safely gathered in, Free from sorrow, free from sin, There for ever purified In God's garner to abide: Come, ten thousand angels, come, Raise the glorious harvest-home! Topics: Times and Seasons Harvest Used With Tune: ST GEORGE'S WINDSOR

The spacious firmament on high

Author: Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 Appears in 782 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. The unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. 2 Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. 3 What though in solemn silence all Move round this dark terrestrial ball; What though nor real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice; For ever singing as they shine, 'The hand that made us is divine.' Topics: Times and Seasons God in Nature; Rogation Days Used With Tune: ADDISON'S (LONDON)