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Text:Turn back, turn back, forswear they foolish ways
Author:Clifford Bax
Tune:OLD 124TH

575. Turn back, turn back, forswear they foolish ways

Text Information
First Line: Turn back, turn back, forswear thy foolish ways
Title: Turn back, turn back, forswear they foolish ways
Author: Clifford Bax (1916)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Topic: The Promised Reign of God
Copyright: Reprinted by permission of the Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group Ltd.
Notes: Clifford Bax and others
Tune Information
Name: OLD 124TH
Meter: 10.10.10.10.10
Key: F Major or modal
Source: melody in Genevan Psalter, 1551; harmony adapted from Claude Goudimel, 1565



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