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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 123 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Farley Smith Tune Sources: Afro-American spiritual Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain
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[Go tell it to Jesus]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. Towner Incipit: 33216 53321 32332 Used With Text: Go Tell It to Jesus
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[Go tell it to Jesus]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Warren W. Bentley Incipit: 55433 24434 65554 Used With Text: Go Tell It to Jesus

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Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work II, 1872-1925 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 108 hymnals First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere; Go, tell it on the mountain, That Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. 2 The shepherds feared and trembled, When lo! above the earth, Rang out the angels chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. 3 Down in a lowly manger The humble Christ was born, And God sent us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: When I was a sinner, I prayed both night and day Topics: Christmas; Mission and Outreach Used With Tune: [When I was a sinner, I prayed both night and day]

Go tell it on the mountain

Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Oh when I was a seeker Used With Tune: [Oh when I was a seeker]

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work, 1871-1925 Hymnal: Lutheran Book of Worship #70 (1978) Meter: 7.8.7.6.7.6.7.6 Lyrics: Refrain: Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and ev'rywhere; Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born! 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold, throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled When lo, above the earth Rang out the angel chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lonely manger The humble Christ was born; And God set us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: GO TELL IT
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Go Tell It to Jesus

Author: Rev. J. H. Sammis Hymnal: Hymns New and Old #70 (1887) Languages: English Tune Title: [Go tell it to Jesus]
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Jesus has Helped Me

Author: Leah Dyer Hymnal: New Songs of Pentecost No. 2 #14 (1917) First Line: Tell it to someone, go tell it today Refrain First Line: Jesus has helped me and He will help you Lyrics: 1 Tell it to someone, go tell it today, How Jesus helps you along on your way; Some soul is waiting for you just to say, Jesus has helped me and He will help you. Refrain: Jesus has helped me and He will help you, Ask Him and trust Him, He’ll carry you through; He will bring comfort, your strength will renew, Jesus has helped me and He will help you. 2 Were you aweary and burdened with care? And did you take it to Jesus in pray’r? Tell how He helped you your burden to bear, Go tell some weary one He has helped you. [Refrain] 3 Countless the blessings bestowed unto you, Tell it to someone, the least you can do Is just to witness His love ever true, “Jesus still helps me and He will help you.” [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Tell it to someone, go tell it today]

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Paul Sjolund

b. 1935 Person Name: Paul Sjolund, b. 1935 Harmonizer of "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN" in Gather Comprehensive

William Farley Smith

1941 - 1997 Adapter and Arranger of "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN" in The United Methodist Hymnal

John Wesley Work

1873 - 1925 Person Name: John W. Work, 1871-1925 Author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" in Lutheran Book of Worship John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907). Bert Polman

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library