Lyrics: Frances Havergal

Music: HENDON by Henri A.C. Malan. Malan was “one of the originators of the hymn movement in the French Reformed Church.” In addition to this tune, he also wrote the tune SILCHESTER, which is sung to the Isaac Watts hymn Marching to Zion. I love that tune.
Take My Life and Let It Be can be and is sung to a number of alternate tunes, but the ohter one that I’m familiar with, Baptist that I am, is William b. Bradbury’s YARBROUGH. We sang both HENDON and YARBROUGH out of the old Baptist Hymnal in my church growing up.
See Hymn TIme for an exhaustive list of alternate tunes.

Here’s Chris Tomlin’s version:

Theme:

Joni Eareckson Tada: “Because of my spinal-cord injury, I can’t use my hands. That means I can’t hold things, and I don’t have very much strength in my arms. I can’t walk or run. But I can sing, and that’s why I love this special hymn, “Take My Life, and Let It Be.” I may be in a wheelchair, but I can still do a whole lot of things for God.”

Lydia’s Extra Thoughts: “I know, it’s just a goal. One says, ‘Hey, here’s a thought. Tomorrow I start out with that in mind. I say only those things Christ would want me to say. My voice is his voice. My lips are his lips. My hands are his hands, and so forth. What a concept.'”

Wordwise Hymns: Though they never met, Miss Havergal was an admirer of Fanny Crosby, and wrote a touching poem to her. It says in part:
Dear blind sister over the sea,
An English heart goes forth to thee.

Here Barbara at Stray Thoughts reviews the book In Trouble and In Joy by Sharon James which tells the stories of four Christian women, including Frances Ridley Havergal.

Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.

Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee;
Take my voice and let me sing,
Always, only for my King.

Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee;
Take my silver and my gold,
Not a mite would I withhold.

Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in endless praise;
Take my intellect and use
Every pow’r as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it Thine,
It shall be no longer mine;

Take my heart, it is Thine own,
It shall be Thy royal throne.

Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store;
Take myself and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.

On December 2, 1873, partially as a result of reading a book called All for Jesus, Frances Havergal consecrated her entire life to the Lord Jesus Christ. The words of this hymn are an expression of that consecration which continued to be worked out in her life as she grew older and found more and more areas of life to give over the lordship of Jesus.

Sources:
Steve Webb’s Lifespring Hymn Stories: Take My Life and Let It Be.
Girl With a Treasure: Frances Ridley Havergal.