The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer.
2 Samuel 22:3
Words & Music: John M. Bowman, The Highway to Heaven (Dalton, Georgia: Anthony J. Showalter, 1899) (🔊 pdf nwc).
I am clinging to the Rock,
Blessèd saving Rock,
While the angry storms may o’er me roll;
I am sheltered ’neath the cleft
From the tempest’s shock,
Blessèd refuge to my weary soul.
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I am clinging, ever clinging,
I am clinging to the Rock;
Blessèd refuge, thou art dear to me;
I am clinging, ever clinging,
I am clinging to the Rock,
Blessèd Savior, I will cling to Thee.
I am clinging to the Rock,
Blessèd rock of faith,
There I see my Savior’s loving form;
I am looking unto Him
While my fleeting breath
Waits His praises thro’ the piercing storm.
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I am clinging to the Rock,
Blessèd rock of hope,
Keeping near the Savior’s bleeding side;
I am anchored to the Rock
That was cleft for me,
Near the fountain of the crimson tide.
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I am clinging to the Rock,
Blessèd rock of love,
Let me, Lord upon Thy bosom rest;
I am waiting for the time
To be called above,
With the ransomed there forever blest.
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