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GO TELL IT

Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 134 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John W. Work, Jr. Tune Sources: Spiritual Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain

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Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Meter: Irregular Appears in 110 hymnals First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere; go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching o'er silent flocks by night, behold, throughout the heavens there shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled when, lo! above the earth rang out the angel chorus that hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lowly manger our humble Christ was born, and God sent us salvation that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Topics: Free Offer of the Gospel Scripture: Luke 2:8-17 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT Text Sources: Spiritual
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Go tell it on the mountain

Author: Frederick J. Work (1880-1942) Appears in 22 hymnals First Line: When I was a sinner Lyrics: Refrain: Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and ev’rywhere; Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born. 1 When I was a sinner, I prayed both night and day; I asked the Lord to help me, And he showed me the way. 2 When I was a seeker, I sought both night and day; I asked my Lord to help me, And he taught me the way. [Refrain] 3 He made me a watchman upon the city wall, And If I am a Christian, I am the least of all. [Refrain] Used With Tune: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Text Sources: Black American Folk Hymn

Ve, di en la montaña

Author: John W. Work; Anita González Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Pastores, sus rebaños Topics: Jesucristo redentor Navidad / Epifanía ; Christian Year Christmas / Epiphany; Jesus Christ Used With Tune: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Text Sources: Espiritual afro-americana

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work, 1871-1925 Hymnal: Lutheran Book of Worship #70 (1978) Meter: 7.8.7.6.7.6.7.6 Lyrics: Refrain: Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and ev'rywhere; Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born! 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold, throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled When lo, above the earth Rang out the angel chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lonely manger The humble Christ was born; And God set us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: GO TELL IT
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Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work II, 1872-1925 Hymnal: The Presbyterian Hymnal #29 (1990) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere; Go, tell it on the mountain, That Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. 2 The shepherds feared and trembled, When lo! above the earth, Rang out the angels chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. 3 Down in a lowly manger The humble Christ was born, And God sent us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Languages: English Tune Title: GO TELL IT
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Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John Wesley Work II Hymnal: Voices United #43 (1996) Meter: Irregular First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching o'er silent flocks by night, behold, throughout the heavens there shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled when lo, above the earth rang out the angel chorus that hailed our Saviour's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lonely manger the humble Christ was born, and God sent our salvation that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Christmas; Closing Hymns; Good News, Gospel; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Saviour; Joy; Recessionals; Service Music Sending Forth/Commissioning; Spirituals; Testimony; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Epiphany Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Christmas 1 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C Languages: English Tune Title: GO, TELL IT

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John Wesley Work

1873 - 1925 Person Name: John W. Work, 1871-1925 Author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" in Lutheran Book of Worship John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907). Bert Polman

Anonymous

Author of "Go, Tell It on the Mountain" in Rejoice in the Lord In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Arranger of "GO TELL IT" in Songs for Life Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology. --internal.calvinseminary.edu/

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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