BEGINNING VIOLIN HOLIDAY MUSIC: GOOD KING WENCESLAS

Words: John M. Neale (1818-1866); 

first ap­peared in Car­ols for

Christ­mas-Tide, 1853, by Neale

and Thom­as Hel­more. Neale

may have writ­ten the hymn

some time ear­li­er: he re­lat­ed

the sto­ry on which it is based

in Deeds of Faith (1849). The

his­tor­ic­al Wen­ces­las was

Duke of Bo­hem­ia.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/g/o/goodking.htm

Saint Wenceslaus I Duke of Bohemia

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