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Thread #155875   Message #4024621
Posted By: GUEST,Pseudonymous
19-Dec-19 - 12:20 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Christmas Bells
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Christmas Bells
It isn't in my 1889 Primitive Methodist Hymnal (ed G Booth).

But while searching, I noted how many hymn tunes in that book have place names:

Attercliffe
Brookfield (was The Archers really going so long ago)?
Bolton
Glastonbury (early example of what later became famous open-air events?)
Runcorn
Ellesmere (for words about a wet harvest)
Crewe
Southport
Ossett
Warrington
Doncaster
Bradford (forget it, four flats is one more than I can cope with even on a good day)
Kirkstall
Rokeby

I won't go on, but of course there is one called

Paradise