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Numbered Notation (also called Jianpu, 简谱) writes each melody note as a number from 1 to 7 instead of a note on a staff. The number shows the note's position in the song's scale -- not its exact pitch -- so the same tune looks identical no matter what key it's sung in.

Within one octave, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 correspond to the familiar do re mi fa sol la ti. A dot above a number raises it an octave higher; a dot below lowers it an octave lower -- no dot means the middle, as-written octave.

A plain number lasts one beat. A dash (-) right after a number holds that same note for one more beat. A line underneath a number shortens it instead -- one line is half a beat, two lines a quarter of a beat. A 0 is a rest: silence for one beat.

The label at the top of the sheet, like "1=C" or "1=Ab", shows which pitch scale degree 1 ("do") is tuned to. A song in a minor key is labeled "6=X" instead -- scale degree 6 ("la") is the true tonic. Chord names printed above the notes (like "C" or "G7") always use their familiar letter names, never numbers.

For example, under a "1=C" heading, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sound as C D E F G A B. Under a "1=G" heading, those very same numbers sound as G A B C D E F# instead -- same shape, different key.

Let me stand behind You, Lord

Experience of Christ Loving Him

Long Beach Songbook1
1
Let me stand behind You, Lord.
Let me wash Your feet with my tears.
Let me wipe them with my hair.
Let me kiss them and anoint them
With the ointment.
 
I love You!
Jesus, I love You!
May I waste my all and life on You.
Let me pour the ointment pure
On Your head and on Your feet,
On You, most precious One
Because I love You.
2
Let me take a pound of ointment pure
Of great value to anoint Your feet
And wipe them with my hair
That the house be filled with the fragrance
Of the ointment.
 
I love You!
Jesus, I love You!
May I waste my all and life on You.
Let me pour the ointment pure
On Your head and on Your feet,
On You, most precious One
Because I love You.
3
Lord, they said if You were a prophet,
You should know who and what I am.
I’m a sinner that toucheth You,
A woman not worthy to anoint You.
 
But I love You!
Jesus, I love You!
You forgave me the most
now I love You, Lord, the most.
Let me pour the ointment pure
On Your head and on Your feet,
On You, most precious One,
Because You love me.
4
Let my love from my being wash Your feet
And my glory without wipe them too
Let me kiss them where the nails would pierce.
All my love, Lord, and glory I’ll waste on You.
 
I love You!
Jesus, I love You!
All my glory and love I pour
and waste on You.
Receive my ointment, Lord.
It’s all I have, dear Lord.
For You, most precious One,
Because I love You.

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Alexander Price

Cincinnati, OH, United States

Sep 20, 2024

I love You!

Jesus I love You!

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Jeremy Tan

Riverside, CA, United States

May 20, 2024

I love You!

Jesus, I love You!

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Nelson Liu

Irvine, CA, United States

Feb 18, 2024

I love You! Jesus, I love You!

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Maurice Ward

Irving, Texas, United States

Aug 17, 2023

I sort of saw something new when listening reading the lyrics. It begins with "Let me stand" then the next line is "let me wash your feet." There's a paradox here: standing and washing feet. How can one stand and wash another's feet at the same time?

I don't know, but when musing over this I just had the sentiment that the real standing must be when we are in a lowly before the Lord loving Him in faith and wasting all our self glory (hair) on Him. It is only when I give myself to the Lord do I sense I have the real standing.

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Alan Lee

San Jose, CA, United States

Mar 5, 2023

What a dear utterance! Lord we love much because we have been forgiven too much!

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Min Lay

Buda, TX, United States

Jan 7, 2021

Desperdiciarnos ante El es la mejor ganancia. Amén!

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Charlotte Yang

Urbana, IL, United States

Oct 24, 2019

A woman not worthy to anoint You, but receive my ointment, Lord! May I pour And waste my all, my life, my love, and my glory on You... because I love You, most precious One!

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A Brother

CA, United States

Aug 31, 2019

You forgave me the most now I love You, Lord, the most.

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Roman Seytumerov

St. Petersburg, Russia

Dec 6, 2018

Love this one so much...

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Dasha Chong

Stuttgart, Germany

Nov 26, 2018

WOW. Lord Jesus!

I’m just a sinner that toucheth You, a woman so not worthy to anoint You...

Oh but Jesus I love You!

May I waste my all and life on You! Receive my little ointment Lord, it’s all I have dear Lord...

But let me stand, wash, wipe, kiss, and pour! Because YOU love me.

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