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Death Could Not Hold My King (The Night Before Easter)

Author: Don Sumner

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Author: Dwayne Friend

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First Line: The night was so different from all the rest
Title: Death Could Not Hold My King (The Night Before Easter)
Author: Don Sumner
Author: Dwayne Friend
Copyright: © 1969, by Gospel Quartet Music Co., Inc.

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