A trip to Bethlehem

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Saint Joseph brushed the donkey

Author: Frederick Anthony Abair
Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	Advent Music for Manuals, Set 1

Instrumental
	Preludes for Flute and Organ

Handbells
	EVENSONG

Representative Text

1 St. Joseph brushed the donkey neat,
Put Mary in the saddle seat,
Then took his staff of hickory limb,
And started off for Bethlehem.

2 They traveled on for may days
Along the winding dusty ways.
But no complaint was heard from them,
A-trav'ling down to Bethlehem.

Source: Sing for Joy: a songbook for young children #4

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Author: Frederick Anthony Abair

Buried: Sacred Heart Cemetery Bethlehem, Shelby, Ohio. We have little data on Abair, except that he was a cleric. Lyrics Annunciation, The Christ the King, Forevermore Trip to Bethlehem, A Wind Was Loud, The http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/a/b/a/abair_fa.htm Go to person page >

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