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Text:On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Alterer:Horrobin
Alterer:Leavers
Author:Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translator:John Chandler, 1806-76
Tune:WINCHESTER NEW
Arranger:William Henry Havergal, 1793-1870

538. On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry

Text Information
First Line: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Title: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translator: John Chandler, 1806-76
Alterer: Horrobin
Alterer: Leavers
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Copyright: This version © 1986 Horrobin/Leavers
Tune Information
Name: WINCHESTER NEW
Arranger: William Henry Havergal, 1793-1870
Meter: LM
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Adapted from a chorale in Musicalisches Hand-Buch, Hamburg, 1690



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