“There Is a Fountain”

Description

"There is a fountain of Christ's blood, Wide open stretch'd for to drown our sins, Where Jesus stands with open arms Of mercy to invite us in."

Supplemental text

There Is a Fountain
  Partial text(s)

          *** A ***

From Ella Mary Leather, Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, pp. 197-198.
Four texts, all nearly identical. The main text ("A") is from
William Colcombe, collected at Weobley in 1904. Variations collated
from "B" (W. Hancocks, Monnington, 1908), "C" (Eliza Smith, Weobley,
1908), and "D" (G. Lewis, Hardwick, 1909).

   TEXT "A" (Colcombe)

1. There is a fountain of Christ's blood
2. Wide open stretch'd for to drown our sins
3. Where Jesus stands with open arms
4. Of mercy to invite us in

There is only one variant between the four texts:
Line 2: "for to": A ] "to": B C D

References

1. Leather, pp. 197-198, "There Is a Fountain" (4 single-stanza texts, all effectively identical; 4 tunes)
2. ST Leath197 (Partial)
3. Roud #663
4. BI, Leath197