Someday When Guns Are Gone

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Someday when guns are gone

Author: Secretary Michael
Tune: DENNIS (Nägeli)
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Someday when guns are gone
And civilization moves on
They'll look back in dread at our bullets of lead
And our millions and millions of dead.

Source: Secular Hymnal: 144 hymn tunes made inclusive for all #89

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Author: Secretary Michael

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First Line:	Someday when guns are gone
Title:	Someday When Guns Are Gone
Author:	Secretary Michael
Language:	English
Publication Date:	2015
Notes:	(traditional hymn: "Blest Be the Tie That Binds")
Copyright:	Public Domain

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DENNIS (Nägeli)

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…

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