O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded Chords
O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded by Johann Sebastian Bach is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords C, D, G, Em, Bm, Am and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verso 1:
C C D G
O sac - red Head, now wound - ed
Em Bm Em
With grief and shame weighed down
C D G
Now scorn - ful - ly sur - round - ed
Em Bm Em
With thorns, Thine only crown
D C G
How pale Thou art with anguish
C Am E
With sore a - buse and scorn
D G Em D
How does that vis - age lang - uish
C D G
Which once was bright as morn
Verso 2:
C C D G
What Thou, my Lord, hast suf - fered
Em Bm Em
Was all for sinners’ gain
C D G
Mine, mine was the trans - gres - sion
Em Bm Em
But Thine the deadly pain
D C G
Lo, here I fall, my Savior
C Am E
’Tis I de - serve Thy place
D G Em D
Look on me with Thy fa - vor
C D G
Vouch - safe to me Thy grace
Verso 3:
C C D G
What lang - uage shall I bor - row
Em Bm Em
To thank Thee, dearest friend
C D G
For this Thy dy - ing sor - row
Em Bm Em
Thy pity without end
D C G
O make me Thine for - ever
C Am E
And should I fainting be
D G Em D
Lord, let me ne - ver, ne - ver
C D G
Out - live my love to Thee