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78. Dark Calvary

Text Information
First Line: Lost in the night, cursed by sin's blight
Title: Dark Calvary
Author: Linwood Jacobs
Refrain First Line: Bleeding, bleeding on Calvary
Language: English
Publication Date: 1952
Copyright: © 1952, by Tennessee Music & Printing Company in "Silver Trumpets"
Tune Information
Name: [Lost in the night, cursed by sin's blight]
Composer: Lewis Stover, Jr.
Incipit: 15631 56477 27546
Copyright: © 1952, by Tennessee Music & Printing Company in "Silver Trumpets"



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