1878–1948

Introduction

Born: 1878, West Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Park Ce­me­te­ry, Mar­quette, Mi­chi­gan.

Biography

Bates was son of Ma­son Will­iam Burt and Abi­gail Gil­bert Bates, and hus­band of Emi­ly May Burt.

In 1922, he be­gan com­pos­ing an­nu­al carols, send­ing them as Christ­mas greet­ing cards to his pa­rish­ion­ers in Mar­quette, and lat­er Pon­ti­ac, Mi­chi­gan.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Christmas Minuet
  2. Come, Youths and Maidens
  3. Gloria Tibi Domine
  4. Good News Breaks from on High
  5. Happy Voices Sweetly Singing
  6. Heav’nly Choirs
  7. In a Far Judean City
  8. Let Christmas Be Merry
  9. Let’s Have a Merry Song Tonight
  10. Little Child Jesus, Tender and Fair
  11. Lying in Thy Manger Lowly
  12. Now Lightly Falls the Christmas Snow
  13. O God of Youth, Whose Spirit
  14. On Christmas Eve, When Fields Are White
  15. Soft Sings the Mother
  16. Tell Me, Tell Me, Shepherd, Pray
  17. What Wonder Is Hid in the Heart
  18. When Christ Was Born of Mary Free
  19. When I View the Mother Holding
  20. When All the Earth Was Dark and Dreary

Music

  1. Lynne

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