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Text:How the World Longs for Your Birth
Author:Anna Briggs (1947-)
Tune:NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND
Adapter:Johann Walther, (1496-1570)
Harmonizer:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

90. How the World Longs for Your Birth

Text Information
First Line: How the world longs for your birth
Title: How the World Longs for Your Birth
Author: Anna Briggs (1947-)
Meter: 77 77
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Advent; Yearning
Copyright: © Anna Briggs
Tune Information
Name: NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND
Adapter: Johann Walther, (1496-1570)
Harmonizer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Meter: 77 77
Key: g minor



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