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Text:Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Adapter:C. Eugene Cooper
Tune:[Keep your lamps trimmed and burning]
Adapter:C. Eugene Cooper

607. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning

Text Information
First Line: Keep your lamps trimmed and burning
Title: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Adapter: C. Eugene Cooper
Language: English
Publication Date: 2018
Scripture: ;
Topic: The Gospel in the Christian Life: Second Coming; Christian Year: Advent (Second Coming)
Source: African American Prayer and Praise Hymn, c. 1900
Copyright: © 1987, 1988, 1991, GIA Publicatons, Inc.
Tune Information
Name: [Keep your lamps trimmed and burning]
Adapter: C. Eugene Cooper
Incipit: 53111 12353 22223
Key: f minor
Source: African American Prayer and Praise Hymn, c. 1900
Copyright: © 1987, 1988, 1991, GIA Publicatons, Inc.



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