Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition
29t Fairfield
Words: Edmund Jones, 1787
Music: Hitchcock
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Come, humble sinner, in whose breast
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve.
I’ll go to Jesus, though my sin
Hath like a mountain rose;
I know His courts, I’ll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.
I can but perish if I go,
I am resolved to try,
For if I stay away I know
I must forever die.
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve.
I’ll go to Jesus, though my sin
Hath like a mountain rose;
I know His courts, I’ll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.
I can but perish if I go,
I am resolved to try,
For if I stay away I know
I must forever die.