Name: The Old Rugged Cross
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Channel: Written by Rev. George Bennard (1873-1958
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Tom Tripp

Country Music, Gospels, StoryTeller, psalmist , Spoken Word

I want to say thank you to John Goode at radio Yass FM100.3 in Australia and Radio Southland 96.4 FM, Invercargill, New Zealand , presented by Noel Parry, and ?COUNTRY ROADS? RADIO SHOW AT FM 98.5 THE PULSE OF THE VALLEYS SHEPPARTON VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA and other radio station around the world for giving my songs/stories air play .................................................................... Welcome to my "Sound Click" web pages. I am a Storyteller and a psalmist , a talker of music. and a writter. Please visit my Home Page at www.countrylovin.us or go to my link page here on SC and click on the link there. All my web pages are family safe,so please feel free to email my links to your family and friends. Here is a little about myself: TOM TRIPP's love for country music can be traced back to his growing up on a small Kansas dirt farm. Tom was the youngest of seven children. His father was a storyteller (as his father was, and his father before him). Tom's father and mother both worked hard to keep their family fed. At the end of a long day, his father would sit next to the old coal-burning stove and tell stories about growing up in the coalfields of southeast Kansas, and of his many adventures in life. Tom learned the art of storytelling at an early age in life, and it can be heard in the stories and songs he writes today. Tom has traveled across every state in the USA but two... Alaska and Hawaii. When asked why he hasn't visited those states yet, Tom just smiles and says: "I always leave the best for last, and my life is far from over." Tom has looked down upon this old earth from the top of the Rocky Mountains. He has watched the sun rise and set over two oceans. He has traveled through the hot desert and walked upon the frozen ponds of the northland, but he has always returned to Kansas... the place where he hangs his hat. Tom Tripp is the proud parent of 4 grown children , Jason , Chris , Nicole and Gina and a Grandfather of 4.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Cover Songs

Charts

Peak #150

Peak in subgenre #17

Author

Written by Rev. George Bennard (1873-1958

Rights

Traditional

Uploaded

July 12, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.2 MB • 320 kbps • 3:09

Story behind the song

The Old Rugged Cross was first sung publicly at revival meetings Bennard was conducting in Pokagon, Michigan (near Niles). It was picked up by evangelist Billy Sunday and his song leader Homer Rodeheaver and became a hit nationwide. The hymn did not make Rev. Bennard rich, however. He sold the rights to the Rodeheaver Company of Winona Lake, Indiana for $500, and the copyright was renewed years later for $5,000. Bennard also wrote numerous other gospel songs, but none matched the success of "The Old Rugged Cross."

Bennard once quipped, "I’ve been introduced as the author of ‘The Old Gray Mare,’ ‘The Old Oaken Bucket,’ and even ‘Rock of Ages;’ and even introduced as George Bennard Shaw, the English philosopher."

Lyrics

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.


So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.


O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.


So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.


In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.


So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.


To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He'll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I'll share.


So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

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