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I'm redeemed, O praise the Lord!
My soul, from bondage free,
Has found at last a resting-place
In Him who died for me.
I looked, and lo, from Calv'ry's cross
A healing fountain streamed;
It cleansed my heart, and now I sing,
Praise God, I am redeemed!
I'm redeemed! I'm redeemed!
I'll sing it o'er and o'er;
I'm redeemed! O praise the Lord!
Redeemed forevermore!
The debt is paid, my soul is free;
And by His mighty pow'r
The blood that washed my sins away
Still cleanseth ev'ry hour.
All glory be to Jesus' name!
I know that He is mine,
For on my heart the Spirit seals
His pledge of love divine.
I'm redeemed! I'm redeemed!
I'll sing it o'er and o'er;
I'm redeemed! O praise the Lord!
Redeemed forevermore!
And when I reach that world more bright
Than mortal ever dreamed,
I'll cast my crown at Jesus' feet
And cry: Redeemed, Redeemed!
I'm redeemed! I'm redeemed!
I'll sing it o'er and o'er;
I'm redeemed! O praise the Lord!
Redeemed forevermore!
The lyricist
Fanny Crosby
Blind from six weeks old, Fanny Crosby taught at the New York Institution for the Blind from 1847 and later gave her days to the city's Bowery rescue missions, writing for the people who came through them. She composed in her head — carrying dozens of finished verses at a time — before dictating them to a copyist, and worked hand in glove with the gospel composers of the revival circuit, among them Ira Sankey and Phoebe Knapp. She wrote so much, some eight thousand hymns, that her publishers had her scatter the credits across nearly two hundred pen names, so that no single hymnal would seem to lean on one author. "I Am Redeemed" appeared that way in 1895, set to Sankey's music and signed "Julia Sterling" — a name that was hers, and wasn't.