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[I think, when I read that sweet story of old] (Bonner)

[I think, when I read that sweet story of old] (Bonner)

Composer: Carey Bonner (1893)
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Carey Bonner

Pseudonyms: E. Rawdon Bailey, A. Bryce, Nora C. E. Byrne, R. Y. Harding, Ernest B. Leslie, Frank Ernest Newton, Edwyn Vincent, Hermann von Müller… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [I think, when I read that sweet story of old] (Bonner)
Composer: Carey Bonner (1893)
Incipit: 54345 34551 23565
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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