I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown.
The old rugged cross lyrics hillsong.
So i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down.
Oh that rugged cross my salvation where your love poured out over me now my soul cries out hallelujah praise and honour unto thee sent of heaven god s own son to purchase and redeem and reconcile the very ones who nailed him to that tree oh that rugged cross my salvation where your love poured out over me now my soul cries out hallelujah.
Oh 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 the old rugged cross stain d with.
As a methodist evangelist george bennard wrote the first verse of the old rugged cross in albion michigan in the fall of 1912 as a response to ridicule that he had received at a revival meeting bennard traveled with ed e.