{"slug": "i-will-sing-of-my-redeemer", "title": "I Will Sing of My Redeemer", "first_line": "I will sing of my Redeemer", "author": "philip-paul-bliss", "author_date": "1876", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Redemption", "Testimony", "Christ, Passion of", "Praise, Son"], "scripture": ["Romans 15:10", "Ephesians 1:7", "Colossians 2:14"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "gospel-hymns-5-1887", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876); the words were found among his papers after his death in the Ashtabula railway disaster of 29 December 1876 and first printed with James McGranahan's tune in Welcome Tidings (comp. Robert Lowry, W. Howard Doane, Ira D. Sankey; New York: Biglow & Main / Cincinnati: John Church & Co., 1877), printed pages 52-53 \u2014 read on the archive.org scan welcometidingsne00lowr, leaves n55-n56, headed 'MY REDEEMER.' with 'P. P. BLISS' at the left, 'JAMES McGRANAHAN' at the right, the motto '\"Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.\"\u2014ROM. 15: 10.', and the engraved footer beneath the hymn's own last system on p. 52 reading 'COPYRIGHT 1877, BY JOHN CHURCH & CO.' (the identical notice at the FOOT of p. 53 belongs to the next hymn, 'Lord, Come Away!', which shares that page). US public domain by publication before 1929. SPELLING: the four STANZAS are transcribed from the second dated witness, Gospel Hymns No. 5 (Cincinnati: John Church Co. / New York: Biglow & Main, 1887), no. 161, printed page 165 (archive.org gospelhymnsno500sank leaf n168), because it is the only printing that INTERLINES all four stanzas and therefore the only one that shows them in sung, elided form \u2014 'won-d'rous', 'tri-umph-ant pow'r', 'heav'n-ly'. (1877 interlines stanzas 1-2 only and sets 3-4 as prose, unelided: 'His triumphant power I'll tell', 'And His heavenly love to me' \u2014 eight and eight syllables where the melody has seven slots each.) The REFRAIN is taken from the 1877 printing instead, because that is the setting engraved here: the 1887 chorus is a THREE-lyric-row arrangement whose soprano line adds a repetition, 'and made me free, And made me free,', that the 1877 chorus does not have and that this music has no notes for.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "I will sing of my Re -- deem -- er And His won -- d'rous love to me; On the cru -- el cross He suf -- fered, From the curse to set me free.", "prose": ["I will sing of my Redeemer", "And His wond'rous love to me;", "On the cruel cross He suffered,", "From the curse to set me free."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "I will tell the won -- d'rous sto -- ry, How my lost es -- tate to save. In His bound -- less love and mer -- cy, He the ran -- som free -- ly gave.", "prose": ["I will tell the wond'rous story,", "How my lost estate to save.", "In His boundless love and mercy,", "He the ransom freely gave."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "I will praise my dear Re -- deem -- er, His tri -- umph -- ant pow'r I'll tell, How the vic -- to -- ry He giv -- eth O -- ver sin, and death, and hell.", "prose": ["I will praise my dear Redeemer,", "His triumphant pow'r I'll tell,", "How the victory He giveth", "Over sin, and death, and hell."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "I will sing of my Re -- deem -- er, And His heav'n -- ly love to me; He from death to life hath brought me, Son of God, with Him to be.", "prose": ["I will sing of my Redeemer,", "And His heav'nly love to me;", "He from death to life hath brought me,", "Son of God, with Him to be."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Sing, oh! sing of my Re -- deem -- er, With His blood He pur -- chased me, On the cross He sealed my par -- don, Paid the debt, and made me free.", "prose": ["Sing, oh! sing of my Redeemer,", "With His blood He purchased me,", "On the cross He sealed my pardon,", "Paid the debt, and made me free."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}