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Text:Canta, Oh Buen Cristiano
Author:Epigmenio Velasco
Tune:WORK, FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING
Composer:Lowell Mason

2. Canta, Oh Buen Cristiano

1 Canta, oh buen cristiano, dulce será cantar,
Hace el camino llano, libra el pesar.
Canta en las noches tristes, canta en el sol y en luz,
El mal así resistes, canta de Jesús.

2 Canta, oh buen cristiano, templa tu corazón,
Alza a tu Soberano, tu feliz canción.
Siempre está lleno el mundo, de en dechas y dolor;
Canta el amor profundo, de tu Salvador.

3 Canta, oh buen cristiano, Dios tu socorro es;
El sostendrá tu mano, hasta la vejez.
¿Sabes que al diablo invitas, cuando medroso estas?
Dios quitará tus cuitas, si cantando vas.

Text Information
First Line: Canta, oh buen cristiano, dulce será cantar
Title: Canta, Oh Buen Cristiano
Author: Epigmenio Velasco
Language: Spanish
Publication Date: 1969
Notes: Public domain, published in Himnos de Gloria (San Antonio: H. C. Ball, 1921).
Tune Information
Name: WORK, FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING
Composer: Lowell Mason



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