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HEBREW CHILDREN

Composer: David Walker

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Tune Information

Title: HEBREW CHILDREN
Composer: David Walker
Meter: 7.7.7.6.8.8.8.6
Incipit: 55457 55434 43455
Key: d minor or modal
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Where are the Hebrew children?

Safe in the promised land

Where are the Hebrew children?
(Repeat previous line twice)
Safe in the promised land:
Though the furnace flamed around them,
God while in their trouble found them;
He with love and mercy bound them,
Safe in the promised land.

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Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • The Promised Land: Organ Settings from "The Sacred Harp"
    Composer/Editor James Boeringer
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2010) pp. 14

Instances in all hymnals

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Text

The Sacred Harp #133

Include 3 pre-1979 instances
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