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Thread #55315 Message #858907
Posted By: masato sakurai
04-Jan-03 - 10:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: As Jacob with Travel Was Weary
Subject: RE: As Jacob with travel was weary
It (as "Jacob's Ladder") is in The Oxford Book of Carols (1928 edition), No. 58 (pp. 120-121), with this note:
This ("Jacob's Ladder") is apparently a carol to which new words were fitted under the influence of the Methodist revival. It is printed here with its traditional melody, which Stainer made familiar in 1871.