Dottie Rambo – He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need
2007 January 26
This is one of my favorite gospel songs. The lyrics are beautiful and the harmony on the chorus is simply gorgeous. Click here to read the touching story behind the song.
He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need
Written By Dottie Rambo, Performed By The Rambos
‘Amazing Grace’ shall always be my song of praise
For it was grace that bought my liberty
I do not know just why he came to love me so
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need
I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary
To view the cross where Jesus died for me
How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need
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Thank God looked beyond my fault and saw my need, I shall forever be grateful to Jesus Christ, he is my friend in trials and hard times. He makes my day beautiful. Yes, indeed his grace is sufficient for me.
Thank you Dottie for such a beautiful song. I watched you on
TBN a few nights ago and enjoyed your singing.
God Bless
As much as I love this song and it’s meaning…
did anyone else realize it’s the same tune as
“Oh Danny Boy”??
Dottie will be miss in Gospel music. Her songs touch “HEARTS” in this world. Heaven is her home now, with all those other Gospel music friends. WHAT A GROUP OF SINGING THAT WILL BE !!!!! GOD BLESS THE FAMILY AND THE ONES THAT WAS IN THE BUS ACCIDENT. Roy from North Carolina
To Dawn, where have you been? I thought everyone knew the turn was “Oh Danny Boy”. It is not unusual for Gospel song writers to “sanctify” secular musice and add Christian words. John Wessley and others did it with bar songs in England shortly after the reformation.
i loved listening to Dottie singing The Holy Hills.she will be greatly missed. i love you Dottie and one day will meet you in heaven. last sunday i sang a solo in church and sang the song The Holy Hills . little did i know she would be gone to be with the Lord this week. God bless the family. alfreda noseworthy
Reba knows that MAMA’S TEACHING ANGLES HOW TO SING.
There will not be another writer like her. She was precious in our sight too, imagine how God loved her.
Ruth Ann Gammons
It was the gift God bestowed upon Dottie that help me through my teen-age years as a Christian. What a priviledge and honor to write and sing about the precious Lamb. Another jewel belonging to the jewelry store of heaven has been turned in to its rightful owner. May her works continue to speak for her.
For Dawn and TruthDetector…
The tune is actually much older than “Danny Boy,” which was written in the late 1800s or early 1900s by Frederick Edward Weatherly (1848-1929) (see ). The more contemporary “You Lift Me Up” (recorded by Selah) is also to this tune, as is “Above the Hills of Time” (written in 1931, published in the 1939 Methodist Hymnal).
from :
Londonderry, traditional Irish melody. Music aficionados will recognize this as the tune used with “Danny Boy.” The music may have been in written in the 17th Century by Rory Dall O’Cahan (also known as Rory Dall Morison). The tune name probably comes from association with the words of the song “Londonderry Air.”
I was first introduced to Dottie Rambo by my cousin Shirley Beecham back in the sixties. Shirley and Dottie had been friends since the days of the “Gospel Echo’s”. I myself had recently began playing and singing gospel music and Dottie’s songs began to take over in my life. I was 18 then and I am now 58 and through the years without a doubt I have and still do sing more of her songs than any other artist. Some of my fondest memories were being at the old “Ellis Auditorium” in Memphis where at one time Gov. Jimmie Davis had come to hear the Rambo’s and I was introduced to him. Another time Jerry Lee Lewis showed up and soon after recorded an album with some of Dottie’s songs on it. Still another time Elvis showed up there. I had and still have every album that the Rambo’s and her have put out, which I am converting to CD’s. You really never know the impact a person has on your life until they are not here any longer, so true is is in my lifetime with Dottie, “What a impact”. Thank you Dottie for your unwavering Christian Holy Spirit inspired life and works! You Are So very missed. Dottie, you now are certainly, “Sheltered Safe Within the Arms of God”!!!
Michael Horner
Looking at the words of the song, I have learnt to be grateful to God every moment because till now He looks beyond my faults and still fulfills my needs. What an amazing God we have.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS, I HAVE REQUESTED THAT IT BE SUNG AT MY FUNERAL. THINKING ABOUT TAPEING IT AND DO IT AT MY OWN FUNERAL, I’M SO GLAD THIS WAS DONE IN THE SAME MUSIC & TUNE AS “DANNY BOY” BECAUSE I ALWAYS LOVE THAT SONG ALSO, THANK YOU DOTTIE.