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135. Over That Hilltop Is Home

Text Information
First Line: There's a dark and a desolate hilltop
Title: Over That Hilltop Is Home
Author: W. C. S.
Refrain First Line: Once over that hilltop they tell me
Language: English
Publication Date: 1966
Copyright: 1965, by Stamps Baxter Music & Printing Co. in "Redeeming Love"
Tune Information
Name: [There's a dark and a desolate hilltop]
Composer: W. C. Stewart
Incipit: 51337 21651 55171
Copyright: 1965, by Stamps Baxter Music & Printing Co. in "Redeeming Love"



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