"Away In A Manger" genre: Christmas
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	Instrumental by Steve W. Smith. James R. Murray published this verse in 1887 in a collection call Dainty Songs for Lads and Lasses, labeling it "Luther's Cradle Hymn, composed by Martin Luther for his children, and still sung by German mothers to their little ones,"
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	Story Behind the Song Copyright (C) 1981 Ardee Music Publishing, Inc. This arrangement by Steve W. Smith ASCAP Copyright (C) 2002 Sted Records Music. About this song: Martin Luther, the German religious reformer, wrote a number of beautiful and stirring hymns and hymn texts, but this sweet lullaby is not among them - although it has been widely credited to him. For reasons of his own, one James R. Murray published this verse in 1887 in a collection call Dainty Songs for Lads and Lasses, labeling it "Luther's Cradle Hymn, composed by Martin Luther for his children, and still sung by German mothers to their little ones," and then adding his own initials, J.R.M., to confuse the matter further. The poem, however, was not Luther's or Murray's, but rather was "borrowed" from a children's Sunday school book published a couple of years earlier in Philadelphia. The origin of the tune used here is also uncertain, although it is possible that Murray was its composer. The words are also often sung to the melody used for the Scottish poem "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton."

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