Traditional Folk Songs Of Many Nations

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	40	A Mighty Fortress is our God.



	This song was the war-cry of the Protestants during the Reformation. They sang it as soldiers in bat�tle, and as martyrs, at the stake. It has been used as historic musio by Meyerbeer in the "Huguenots", by Wagner in his "Kaiser-Jlarseh',' by Bach in a Cantata, by Raff in an overture, etc. etc. Tho words are by Luther, but the composer of tho melody has not been traced. The tune was probably first published in 1538. The words are a paraphrase of the 46th Psalm. 14842