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Gospel Hymns No. 6 #65
Tune Title: [Return! return! O wand'rer, now return!] First Line: Return! return! O wand'rer, now return! Composer: Geo. F. Root Date: 1891
Gospel Hymns No. 6 #65
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RETURN, O WANDERER (Root)
RETURN, O WANDERER (Root)
Composer: George F. RootPublished in 4 hymnals
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Composer: George F. Root
Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >Instances
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Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #478
Tune Title: [Return! return! O wand'rer, now return!] First Line: Return! return! O wand'rer, now return! Composer: Geo. F. Root Date: 1894
Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #478
The New Christian Hymnal #193
Tune Title: REUTN, O WANDERER First Line: Return! return! Composer: Geo. F. Root Meter: 4 6 4 6 8 6 6 Key: E Major Date: 1929
The New Christian Hymnal #193
Wondrous Love #59
Tune Title: [Return! return! O wand'rer, now return!] First Line: Return! return! O wand'rer, now return! Composer: G. F. R. Date: 1885
Wondrous Love #59
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