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We're marching to the conflict

Author: George Banaster

Banaster, George, is given in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, as the author of “We're marching to the conflict," and dated 1880. It previously appeared in the Christian Endeavour Hymnal, 1896, with the same signature. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We're marching to the conflict
Author: George Banaster
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Marching to the conflict
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

WIR PFLÜGEN

WIR PFLÜGEN (named after the incipit of Schulz’s original third stanza) was published anonymously in the Hanover collection Lieder für Volksschulen (1800). But it was credited to Johann A. P. Schulz in Lindner’s Berlin songbook Jungenfreund (1812). The harmonization by John B. Dykes (PHH 147)…

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