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There Is a Green Hill Far Away

Cecil Frances Alexander

“There Is a Green Hill Far Away” as printed in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920).

Cecil Frances Alexander: Collected Lyrics Text 2 1920 · historical text
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This text comes from The Army and Navy Hymnal, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

There is a green hill far away,

Without a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified,

Who died to save us all.

Refrain

Oh dearly, dearly has he loved,

And we must love him too,

And trust in his redeeming blood,

And try his works to do.

We may not know, we cannot tell

What pains he had to bear;

But we believe it was for us

He hung and suffered there.

He died that we might be forgiven,

He died to make us good,

That we might go at last to heaven,

Saved by his precious blood.

There was no other good enough

To pay the price of sin;

He only could unlock the gate

Of heaven, and let us in.

Amen

Credits

Written by Cecil Frances Alexander

Words by Cecil Frances Alexander. Historical text published in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920), “There Is a Green Hill Far Away”

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