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| Text: | What Tidings Bring'st Us, Messenger? |
| Author (attr. to) (burden and sts. 1-4: | John Audelay |
| Tune: | [A babe is born of high nature] |
| Arranger: | Elizabeth Poston, 1905- |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | A babe is born of high nature |
| Title: | What Tidings Bring'st Us, Messenger? |
| Author (attr. to) (burden and sts. 1-4: | John Audelay |
| Refrain First Line: | What tidings bring'st us, messenger |
| Publication Date: | 1967 |
| Topic: | Christmas |
| Source: | Burden and stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.3.58; 15th century; stanza 5: Bodleian Library MS. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [A babe is born of high nature] |
| Arranger: | Elizabeth Poston, 1905- |
| Incipit: | 11654 35435 5655 |
| Key: | D Major |
| Source: | 15th-century carol tune, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.3.58 |
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