Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#518

518. Turn Back

Text Information

• First Line: Turn back, turn back, forswear your foolish ways
• Title: Turn Back
• Author: Clifford Bax (1916, alt.)
• Meter: 10 10.10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Topic: World Peace

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 124th
• Meter: 10 10.10 10 10
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: Trente quatre Pseaumes de David, Geneva, 1551

Text Information:

Bax was an English playwright and poet. His words are set to OLD 124th, one of the earliest of Louis Bourgeois' hymn-tune arrangements done for John Calvin