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[I'll tell you a tale of the olden time]

[I'll tell you a tale of the olden time]

Composer: Benn W. J. Trevaldwyn; Harmonizer: T. Worsley Staniforth
Published in 2 hymnals


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Composer: Benn W. J. Trevaldwyn

Benn W. J. Trevaldwyn was born about 1829 in Kerry, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was a writer and poet. Trevaldwyn changed his name from Benn Wilkes Jones to Benn Wilkes Jones Trevaldwyn while Rector of Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, in 1872. He died on January 26, 1905 in Looe, Cornwall. NN, Hymnary. Source: http://hymntime.com/tch//bio/t/r/e/trevaldwyn_bwj.htm  Go to person page >

Harmonizer: T. Worsley Staniforth

(no biographical information available about T. Worsley Staniforth.) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [I'll tell you a tale of the olden time]
Composer: Benn W. J. Trevaldwyn
Harmonizer: T. Worsley Staniforth
Incipit: 51765 32123 33671
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

A Tale of the Olden Time

I&#;ll tell you a tale of the olden time,
While the yule log burns bright, and the church bells chime.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
There sate a fair princess in joy on her throne,
And there in her arms her Infant was shown:
Gloria in excelsis, Gloria in excelsis
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

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The Cyber Hymnal #6479
Text: A Tale of the Olden Time
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