Misc Praise Songs – My Song Is Love Unknown (Guitar)

C           G6     Am    G  C                F
My song is love unknown, my Savior's love to me

     Dm     Em        Am                    Dsus4 D7 G
Love to the loveless shown, that they might love-ly be

C   Bb    Dm      F     Am
Oh, who am I that for my sake,

G  C                       G6        C
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?

 C           G6           Am    G C          F
He came from his blessed throne salvation to bestow

     Dm       Em         Am                  Dsus4  D7    G
But men made strange and none the longed-for Christ would know

 C  Bb    Dm         F        Am
But O! my friend, my friend indeed,

 G  C               G6       C
Who at my need, His life did spend.

C              G6        Am  G   C                 F
Sometimes they strew His way and His sweet praises sing

   Dm      Em      Am            Dsus4 D7  G
Resounding all the day, hosannas to  their King

 C     Bb  Dm       F         Am
Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath,

 G   C                  G6        C
And for His death they thirst and cry.

 C            G6       Am  G  C                   F
Why, what has my Lord done to cause this rage and spite

   Dm       Em      Am                Dsus4  D7   G
He made the lame to run, and gave the blind their sight

 C   Bb    Dm      F         Am
What injuries, yet these are why,

G   C                  G6      C
The Lord Most High so cruelly dies.

C                   G6    Am  G  C              F
They rise and needs will have my dear Lord made away

  Dm  Em        Am                  Dsus4 D7    G
A murderer they save, the Prince of Life  they slay

 C  Bb       Dm    F         Am
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,

  G  C                 G6           C
That He his foes from thence might free.

C                  G6  Am   G  C                   F
In life, no house, no home, my Lord on earth would have

   Dm        Em       Am               Dsus4 D7   G
In death, no friendly tomb, but what a stran-ger gave!

C    Bb    Dm        F     Am
What may I say? Heaven was His home,

G   C               G6        C
But mine the tomb wherein He lay.

C            G6       Am   G  C          F
Here might I stay and sing no story so divine

  Dm      Em         Am              Dsus4 D7   G
Never was love, dear King, never was grief like Thine

 C   Bb    Dm        F           Am
This is my friend in whose sweet praise,

G   C                G6     C
I, all my days would gladly spend.