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Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree… Go to person page >| Title: | ADOWA |
| Composer: | Chas. H. Gabriel |
| Meter: | 8.8.6.8.8.6 |
| Incipit: | 51112 33345 55343 |
| Key: | G Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
ADOWA was composed by Charles H. Gabriel (PHH 24), the noted gospel songwriter, during the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver evangelistic crusades of the 1910s, and was published with this text in the 1912 Psalter. Sing the tune in two very long phrases.
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988
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