"Come, Lazarus," the Savior Called

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"Come, Lazarus," the Savior Called

Author: Carl P. Daw
Tune: BANGOR (Tansur)
ONE LICENSE: 15513
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Organist's Library, Vol. 51

Representative Text

Source: Moravian Book of Worship #338

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Author: Carl P. Daw

Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New… Go to person page >

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First Line:	"Come, Lazarus," the Savior Called
Author:	Carl P. Daw
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1990 by Hope Publishing Company.

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Tune

BANGOR (Tansur)

Traditionally used for Montgomery's text and for Peter Abelard's "Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord," BANGOR comes from William Tans'ur's A Compleat Melody: or the Harmony of Syon (the preface of which is dated 1734). In that collection the tune was a three-part setting for Psalm 12 (and for Psalm 11 i…

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