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Lyrics
Text: SALVE CAPUT CRUENTATUM 7 6 7 6
Tune: THE LORD IS MY TRUE SHEPHERD (GOOD FRIDAY)
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)
Vocals by Fr. J. Roel Lungay
Orchestration by Romeo Mascariñas
1
O Sacred Head surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and out to scorn!
2
The power of death comes o’er you,
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore you,
And tremble as they gaze.
(Interlude)
3
I see your strength and vigor
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving you of life;
4
O agony and dying!
O love to sinner’s free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn your face on me.
(Interlude)
5
In this, your bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With your most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be.
6
Beneath your cross abiding
Forever would I rest,
In you dear love confiding,
And with your presence blest.
Text: Salve caput crenate; Ascr. to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153;
Tr. by Henry Baker, 1821-1877
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)
