When Joseph Went To Bethlehem (Music: I. Reed Payne)

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Children's Songbook p.
Music: I. Reed Payne
Words: Bessie Saunders Spencer
1.When
Jo
-
seph
went
to
Beth
-
le
-
hem,
I
think
he
took
great
2.I
think
there
at
the
bus
-
y
inn
that
he
was
meek
and
care
To
place
his
tools
and
close
his
shop
and
leave
no
shav
-
ings
there.
He
mild
And
awed
to
be
the
guard
-
i
-
an
of
Mar
-
y's
sa
-
cred
child.
Per
-
urged
the
don
-
key
for
-
ward
then,
with
Mar
-
y
on
its
back,
And
haps
all
through
the
chill
-
y
hours
he
smoothed
the
swad
-
dling
bands,
And
car
-
ried
bread
and
goat
cheese
in
a
lit
-
tle
lin
-
en
sack.
Je
-
sus
felt
the
qui
-
et
strength
of
Jo
-
seph's
gen
-
tle
hands.

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