The Fathers Built This City
- Words:
- William George Tarrant
- Music:
- John B. Dykes
Sheet music
The fathers built this city In times now long ago…
In the hymnals
- Written in 1853, the words are in 46 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.