My Lord, I Did Not Choose You - Old Hymn Lyrics & Music

My Lord I Did Not Choose You - Traditional Hymn & Spiritual Song Lyrics with Orchestral backing music.

LYRICS INFO:
My Lord, I Did Not Choose You(BH289)
Words: Josiah Conder
Music: Anonymous
Tune: WHITFIELD
Meter: 7.6.7.6.D
CCLI Song Number: 741344 PD.

1. My Lord, I did not choose You,
For that could never be;
My heart would still refuse You,
Had You not chosen me.
You took the sin that stained me,
You cleansed me, made me new;
Of old You have ordained me,
That I should live in You.

2. Unless Your grace had called me
And taught my op'ning mind,
The world would have enthralled me,
To heav'nly glories blind.
My heart knows none above You;
For Your rich grace I thirst.
I know that if I love You,
You must have loved me first.

FOR SINGERS - music is mostly SATB formatted:
Centre: Soprano (violin/piccolo/flute/cello), Bass (Acoustic Bass/Contrabass)

Right 100% Alto (clarinet), Left 100% Tenor (oboe/tuba/trombone)

Lyrics are formatted for church type projection, for use in worship or choir practice etc.

SONG VERSIONS are the original traditional ones. There are also some variant versions of tunes, standard / full verses or instrumentation.

Lyrics and tunes used are PD versions, my music performance(sound recording) is copyright© Rod Smith but non-commercial, worship and individual education use is OK but NO posting to other YouTube channels or on-line anywhere without permission. Copyright, author and CCLI number (where available) are on the video.

UPDATES & CORRECTIONS: please let me know of any problem or deficiency with a song or music, and I will try and provide a new corrected version.

Thanks Rod

[RodSmith]

My Lord, I did not choose You,
For that could never be;
My heart would still refuse You,
Had You not chosen me.
You took the sin that stained me,
You cleansed me, made me new;
Of old You have ordained me,
That I should live in You.

[daneumurian]

This is one of my life verses. The music is beautiful. Thank you.