Niño Lindo

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Esa tu hermosura (You have heaven's beauty)

Translator: Geroge Lockwood (1987)
Tune: CARACAS
Published in 4 hymnals

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Niño lindo, ante ti me rindo,
Niño lindo, eres tú mi Dios.
Niño lindo, ante ti me rindo,
Niño lindo, eres tú mi Dios.

3 Adiós, tierno Infante, adiós, Niño, adiós.
Adiós, dulce amante, adiós, dulce amante,
Amante, adiós, Niño, adiós.

Niño lindo, ante ti me rindo,
Niño lindo, eres tú mi Dios.
Niño lindo, ante ti me rindo,
Niño lindo, eres tú mi Dios.

Source: The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement #56

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Translator: Geroge Lockwood

Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Esa tu hermosura (You have heaven's beauty)
Title:	Niño Lindo
Translator:	Geroge Lockwood (1987)
Meter:	Irregular with refrain
Source:	Trad. Venezuelan
Language:	English; Spanish
Refrain First Line:	Niño lindo, ante ti me rindo (Child so lovely, here I kneel before you)
Publication Date:	1989
Copyright:	Trans. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House