The Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross

The Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross was written by  Albert E. Brumley.

 Albert E. Brumley was  born on 

October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri. Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970. © The Cyber Hymnal™. 

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Lyrics:

On the cross of Calvary our blessed Saviour died,
Gave His life to save the world from loss;
In His pain and agony, for every sin to hide,
Shed the blood that stained the old rugged cross.

'Twas His blood, His precious blood that stained the old rugged cross,
'Twas His love that paid the awful cost;
Oh soul so far astray come and plunge today
In the blood that stained the old rugged cross

To the cross, the rugged cross they nailed His precious hands
And in death He fully paid the cost,
There is pardon in His love for everyone that stands
For the blood that stained the old rugged cross

What an awful death He died to pardon you and me,
All alone in agony He tossed,
And a world once lost in sin can now be wholly free
By the blood that stained the old rugged cross.