Cantamos tu prez, Creador poderoso

Author: Anonymous

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Translator (sts. 1,2 4): Anonymous

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Transltor, st. 3): Albert Lehenbauer

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First Line:	Cantamos tu prez, Creador poderoso
Dutch Title:	Wilt heden nu treden voor God den Heere
Translator (sts. 1,2 4):	Anonymous
Transltor, st. 3):	Albert Lehenbauer
Meter:	12.11.12.11
Language:	Spanish

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Tune

KREMSER

The tune KREMSER owes its origin to a sixteenth-century Dutch folk song "Ey, wilder den wilt." Later the tune was combined with the Dutch patriotic hymn 'Wilt heden nu treden" in Adrianus Valerius's Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck [sic: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclank] published posthumously in 1626. 'Wilt…

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