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Sydney Carter

Sydney Carter
From Cyberhymnal
Short Name: Sydney Carter
Full Name: Carter, Sydney, 1915-2004
Birth Year: 1915
Death Year: 2004
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Texts by Sydney Carter (48)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
At half past twelve when putting out the dustbinSydney Carter (Author)English0
Bitter was the night, Thought the cock would crow for everSydney Carter (Author)English2
Catch the Bird of heavenSydney Carter (Author)English1
Chante étoile de NoëlSydney Carter (Author)French1
Charles de Gaulle, he said to meSydney Carter (Alterer)English0
Dancé en la mañana cuando el mundo nacióSydney Carter (Author)Spanish6
Dig, MichaelangeloSydney Carter (Author)English0
Doctor Zhivago (everybody's heard of it)Sydney Carter (Author)English0
Don't know where I was beforeSydney Carter (Author)English0
Early in the morning, Hear the razor roarSydney Carter (Author)English0
En vano llama a la ventanaSydney Carter (Author)Spanish1
Every star shall sing a carolSydney Carter (b. 1915) (Author)English13
Feeling sad and lonely? Drink a pint-a milk a daySydney Carter (Author)English0
Go walking through the worldSydney Carter (Adapter)1
Here we go up to Bethlehem, BethlehemSydney Carter (Author)English0
I danced in the morning when the world was begunSydney Carter (b. 1915) (Adapter)English51
I went to work in a big hotelSydney Carter (Author)English0
If you are a son of manSydney Carter (Author)English0
If you think with a bomb and you argue with a gunSydney Carter (Author)English0
In Port-Mahon I went down to the harborSydney Carter (Author)English0
It was on a Friday morning that they took me from the cellSydney Carter (Author)English0
Lifting and loving you that I am notSydney Carter (Author)English1
Loud are the bells of NorwichSydney Carter (Author)1
Love's a thing that's over-ratedSydney Carter (Author)English0
My mum was a woman and that's why I like 'emSydney Carter (Author)English0
Necesito un amigoSydney Carter (Author)Spanish1
No use knocking on the windowSydney Carter (Author)English3
O there's no fun at all for a mixed-up old manSydney Carter (Author)English0
One more step along the world I goSydney Bertram Carter (1915-2004) (Author)English10
Plato in the paper-back I have never readSydney Carter (Author)English0
Said Judas to Mary, "Now What Will You Do"Sydney Carter, b. 1915 (Author)English7
Say, Mister Barber, will you cut my hair?Sydney Carter (Author)English0
Seated on day at the juke-boxSydney Carter (Author)English0
The bell of creation is swinging for everSydney Carter (Author)English0
The Devil wore a crucifixSydney Carter (Author)English0
The rat race is a cruel raceSydney Carter (Author)English0
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the cornSydney Carter (Author)English0
There's a light that is shining in the heart of a manSydney Carter (Author)English1
Tobacco, tobacco, I hate youSydney Carter (Author)English0
Travel on, travel on, there's a river that is flowingSydney Carter (Author)English2
Upon a Sunday morningSydney Carter (Author)English0
When I needed a neighbor, were you there, were you there?Sydney Carter (Author)English19
When I was eighty sevenSydney Carter (Author)English0
When the sailor comes ashoreSydney Carter (Author)English0
When they shouted, hosanna, were you there, were you there?Sydney Carter (Author)English0
When were you really living?Sydney Carter (Author)English0
When you're working in the dark, Down belowSydney Carter (Author)English0
Your holy hearsay is not evidenceSydney Carter (Author)English0

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