[Music]
Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend, As such I look on thee,
Now in the bowels of thy love, O Lord remember me.
O Lord remember me, O Lord remember me;
Now in the bowels of thy love, O Lord remember me.
Remember thy pure words of grace, remember Calvary,
Remember all thy dying groans, and then remember me.
O Lord remember me, O Lord remember me;
Remember all thy dying groans, and then remember me.
Thou wondrous advocate with God, I yield myself to thee,
While thou art sitting on thy throne, O Lord remember me.
O Lord remember me, O Lord remember me;
While thou art sitting on thy throne, O Lord remember me.
And when I close my eyes in death, and creature helps all flee,
Then O my great Redeemer, God, I pray remember me.
I pray remember me, I pray remember me;
Then O my great Redeemer, God, I pray remember me.
The poem is attributed in the _Sacred Harp_ to Richard Burnham. The
tune there, and generally in the southern books, is credited to J. C.
Lowry. Found also, MOH 59, GCM 104, SOH 80, UH 23, KNH 56, HH 112, SOC
205, WP 83, TZ 92, SKH 25, GOS 311. A negro spiritual inspired by this
song is 'Lord, Remember Me', SS 12, No. 15. Miss Gilchrist sees in
'Pisgah' a variant of 'Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard' as found in
the Appendix of Motherwell, _Minstrelsy_, and later published in
Chappell's _Popular Music_. (See JFSS, viii., 61-95.) Despite the
apparently English source of 'Pisgah', the _Methodist Hymn Book_ of
England reproduces the tune under the title 'Covenanters' and calls it
"an American Melody."
No. 124
GAINES, HH 122