Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

Tho' my sins were once like crimson red

No. 1220
Tune WASHED WHITE AS SNOW.
Words Fanny J. Crosby.
Music Jno. R. Sweney.
Key G major
Singing key F major
Time 6/8
4 stanzas

Words

Tho' my sins were once like crimson red,To the healing stream my feet were led;In the precious blood my Saviour shedHe washed me white as snow.

Chorus.

O, my joyful song henceforth shall be,"'Tis the blood of Jesus cleanseth me,"Cleanseth, cleanseth, O, yes, it cleanseth me.

At the door of faith I entered in,And to him confessed my guilt and sin;With his own dear hand he washed me clean,He washed me white as snow.

Tho' my heart was all I had to give,Yet he smiled and bade me look and live;What a calm, sweet peace did I receive!—He washed me white as snow.

I will sing his pow'r from death to save,I will sing his triumph o'er the grave,I will sing beyond death's chilling wave,"He washed me white as snow."

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1220» (large, left), title «WASHED WHITE AS SNOW.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in two lines, «"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."—Isa. 1 : 18.»; «FANNY J. CROSBY.» at the left and «JNO. R. SWENEY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no meter, no reference line and no running head are printed. The four stanzas are interlinear, «1.»–«4.» before the lines of system 1; the chorus, headed «CHORUS.», is printed once (systems 3–4) and is sung after every stanza. «By permission John J. Hood.» is printed under the music, above the page number «438». The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «!» («led ;», «Lord :», «re - ceive !—», «1 : 18»); it is closed up here. Words divided under the notes are joined («heal-ing», «pre-cious», «Sav-iour» → «healing», «precious», «Saviour»); each stanza is set in its four verse lines (the print runs two verse lines on each staff line). Broken letters in the print («oncp», «guift», «spew», «wifl») are read «once», «guilt», «snow», «will» (see uncertainties.md). Spelling («Saviour», «pow'r», «o'er», «'Tis»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.