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----- and Theodore E. Perkins. "The Excursion". In The Mount Zion Collection of Sacred and Secular Music: Consisting of Tunes, Anthems, Singing School Exercises and Songs for the Sabbath School and Social Circle. Edited by Theodore E. Perkins. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1869.----- and William Howard Doane.
"Jesus Loves Me" is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915). [1] The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called Say and Seal, written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. [2]
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
Crosby described her hymn-writing process: 'It may seem a little old-fashioned, always to begin one's work with prayer, but I never undertake a hymn without first asking the good Lord to be my inspiration.' [30] Her capacity for work was prodigious, and she could often compose six or seven hymns a day. [226] Her poems and hymns were composed ...
Forever Words is a 2018 album by various artists recording poetry and lyrics by Johnny Cash set to music for the first time. The album follows a 2016 book release of the poems entitled Forever Words: The Unknown Poems (ISBN 0399575138). [4] The album includes a posthumously released track by Chris Cornell, who died in 2017. In 2020 and 2021, a ...
From Part II. certain verses were selected to make the hymn, "I Love to Tell the Story". The tune was composed by William G. Fischer, a professor of music at Girard College, Philadelphia, PA and appeared in Fischer's Joyful Songs, Nos. 1 to 3 published in 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Methodist Episcopal Book Room. [1] The refrain used was
The song also appears on John Prine and Mac Wiseman's 2007 Standard Songs for Average People. The song is included on Johnny Cash's 5-CD box set Cash Unearthed, released posthumously in November, 2003, [7] and featured on disc 4, My Mother's Hymn Book. This collection of gospel songs was released as a stand-alone disc six months later.
These are the words as published by Robert Lowry in the 1869 song book, Bright Jewels for the Sunday School. [3] Here Lowry claims credit for the music, an iambic 8.7.8.7.D tune, [4] but gives no indication as to who wrote the words. These words were also published in a British periodical in 1869, The Christian Pioneer, [5] but no author is ...