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Text:Once you were darkness, but now you are light
Author:Graham Andrew Kendrick, b. 1950
Tune:[Once you were darkness, but now you are light]
Composer:Graham Andrew Kendrick, b. 1950

303. Once you were darkness, but now you are light

Text Information
First Line: Once you were darkness, but now you are light
Author: Graham Andrew Kendrick, b. 1950
Refrain First Line: Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Topic: Christ Promised: His First Advent
Copyright: © 1994, Make Way Music
CCLI Number: 1047298
Tune Information
Name: [Once you were darkness, but now you are light]
Composer: Graham Andrew Kendrick, b. 1950
Key: A Major
Copyright: © 1994, Make Way Music



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