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Text:From a Distant Home
Translator:Walter Ehret
Translator:George K. Evans
Tune:ISLA DEL ENCANTO

64. From a Distant Home

Text Information
First Line: De tierra lejana venimos a verte (From a distant home the Savior we come seeking)
Title: From a Distant Home
Spanish Title: De Tierra Lejan Venimos
Translator: George K. Evans
Translator: Walter Ehret
Refrain First Line: O brillante estre (Lovely eastern star)
Meter: 12.12 with refrain
Language: English; Spanish
Publication Date: 1990
Scripture: ;
Source: Puerto Rican carol
Copyright: Copyright © 1963, 1980 by Walter Ehret and George K. Evans, from The International Book of Christmas Carols. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
ONE LICENSE: 30139123
Tune Information
Name: ISLA DEL ENCANTO
Meter: 12.12 with refrain
Key: c minor



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