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64. O healing river

Text Information
First Line: O healing river, send down your waters
Title: O healing river
Translator (German): Horst Bracks
Translator (French): Marc Chambron
Translator (Spanish): Martin Junge
Language: English; French; German; Spanish
Publication Date: 2003
Topic: Baptism; Taufe; Baptéme (1 more...)
Source: Trad. African American
Copyright: German tr. © Horst Bracks; French tr. © Marc Chambron; Spanish tr. © Lutheran World Federation
Tune Information
Name: [O healing river, send down your waters]
Key: a minor or modal
Source: Trad. African American
Copyright: Arr. © Terry MacArthur and Oxford University Press



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