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Text:A Shepherd Boy
Author:Wilma W. Burton
Tune:[I would like to have been a shepherd boy]
Composer:George S. Schuler

7. A Shepherd Boy

Text Information
First Line: I would like to have been a shepherd boy
Title: A Shepherd Boy
Author: Wilma W. Burton
Refrain First Line: But, somehow, I'd rather be living today
Language: English
Publication Date: 1948
Copyright: © 1947, by Van Kampen Press, in "Christmas Spirit"
Tune Information
Name: [I would like to have been a shepherd boy]
Composer: George S. Schuler
Incipit: 11333 56677 12335



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