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ADOWA

Composer: Chas. H. Gabriel

Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree… Go to person page >

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Title: ADOWA
Composer: Chas. H. Gabriel
Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6
Incipit: 51112 33345 55343
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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ADOWA was composed by Charles H. Gabriel (PHH 24), the noted gospel songwriter, during the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver evangelistic crusades of the 1910s, and was published with this text in the 1912 Psalter. Sing the tune in two very long phrases.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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