Songs for Good Friday, April 10, 2020

Songs for Good Friday, April 10, 2020

Man of Sorrows
Words & Music” Philip P. Bliss (1875); Public Domain

Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed
Words: Isaac Watts (1707); Music: Hugh Wilson (circa 1800) arr. Robert A. Smith (1825); Public Domain

Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted
Words: Thomas Kelly (1769-1854); Music: Geistliche Volkslieder, Paderborn (1850); Public Domain

Ah, Holy Jesus
Words: Johann Heermann (circa 1630), trans. Robert S. Bridges (1899), based on Jean de Fecamp (d. 1078); Music: Johann Crüger (1640); Public Domain

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Words: Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), tr. by Pul Gerhardt (1656), tr. James W. Alexander (1830); Music: Hans Leo Hassler (1601), arr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1729); Public Domain

Before the Throne of God Above
Words: Charitie Lees Bancroft (1863); Music and alt. Lyrics: Vikki Cook (1997); Used by permission of Sovereign Grace Worship