This month’s tab is an arrangement of the hymn “All Creatures of Our God and King”. The original text was written circa 1225 by the Italian friar Francis of Assisi as part of his Canticle of the Sun poem. Nearly 700 years later, English pastor and hymnist William Draper translated the words and adapted them into a hymn intended to be sung by a children’s choir.

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This month’s tab is an arrangement of the hymn “Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer”. The text was written in 1745 by the Welsh hymnist and evangelist William Williams of Pantycelyn. At the age of 20, while studying to become a doctor, he attended a revival meeting led by the Methodist evangelist Howell Harris. Williams was so moved that he abandoned medical school and started to prepare for life as an itinerant preacher. Taking all of Wales as his parish, for forty-three years he traveled almost 100,000 miles on horseback, preaching and singing the gospel in the Welsh language.

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During the 1980s and 1990s, David Schnaufer made numerous guest appearances on the popular “Nashville Now” television show hosted by Ralph Emery. It was an entertainment/ talk show focused on country music performers, and was watched by millions from all over the country on the Nashville Network cable channel. Shortly after one such appearance in 1987, David received a letter from Mrs. Wanda Parrish, originally from Big Tyler Mt, WV. She included some photos of an old mountain dulcimer built in 1911 by Dennis McCown of Big Tyler Mt. as a “courtship present” for Mrs. Parrish’s great-aunt.

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