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Text:Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
Author:Vida Munden Nixon
Tune:[Lonely souls are weary, wand'ring]
Composer:W. Allan Sims

48. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning

Text Information
First Line: Lonely souls are weary, wand'ring
Title: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
Author: Vida Munden Nixon (1930)
Refrain First Line: Keep your lamp all trimmed and burning
Language: English
Publication Date: 1930
Copyright: © 1930, by W. A. Sims and J. R. Baxter, Jr.
Notes: Now Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [Lonely souls are weary, wand'ring]
Composer: W. Allan Sims (1930)
Incipit: 34517 65334 56517
Copyright: © 1930, by W. A. Sims and J. R. Baxter, Jr.
Notes: Now Public Domain.



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