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Text:Not Dead, but Sleeping
Author:Clara McAlister
Tune:["Lo, she is not dead, but sleeping"]
Composer:B. E. Warren

262. Not Dead, but Sleeping

Text Information
First Line: "Lo, she is not dead, but sleeping"
Title: Not Dead, but Sleeping
Author: Clara McAlister
Refrain First Line: Only sleeping, sweetly sleeping
Language: English
Publication Date: 1907
Topic: Funeral
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: ["Lo, she is not dead, but sleeping"]
Composer: B. E. Warren
Incipit: 54355 44333 32255
Key: Dā™­ Major
Notes: Public Domain.


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