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We Want You Over There

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: We're going home to glory soon, To see the city bright

The good old gospel way

Author: E. C. Avis Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I'm going home to glory in the good old gospel way

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[We're going home to glory soon]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: F. B. Bateman Tune Sources: Evangel Echoes Incipit: 53215 76555 54565 Used With Text: We Want You Over There
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[I'm going home to glory in the good old fashion way]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Used With Text: In the Good Old Fashion Way
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[We are going home to glory]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 55111 11512 32121 Used With Text: On the Road, Going Home

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We Want You Over There

Hymnal: Songs of Victory #130 (1890) First Line: We're going home to glory soon Languages: English Tune Title: [We're going home to glory soon]
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In the Good Old Fashion Way

Author: R. E. W. Hymnal: Soul Inspiring Songs #72 (1929) First Line: I’m going home to glory in the good old fashion way Refrain First Line: Glory, glory, glory hallelujah Lyrics: 1 I’m going home to glory in the good old fashion way, I’m going home to glory in the good old fashion way; I’m going home to glory in the good old fashion way,— The good old fashion way. Refrain: Glory, glory, glory hallelujah, I’m going home to glory, In the good old fashion way; Glory, glory, glory hallelujah, I’m going home to glory, In the good old fashion way. 2 I’m going home to glory in the meek and humble way, I’m going home to glory in the meek and humble way; I’m going home to glory in the meek and humble way,— The meek and humble way. [Refrain] 3 I’m going home to glory in the bright and shining way, I’m going home to glory in the bright and shining way; I’m going home to glory in the bright and shining way,— The bright and shining way. [Refrain] 4 I’m going home to glory in the hallelujah way, I’m going home to glory in the hallelujah way; I’m going home to glory in the hallelujah way,— The hallelujah way. [Refrain] 5 I’m going home to glory in the pentecostal way, I’m going home to glory in the pentecostal way; I’m going home to glory in the pentecostal way,— The pentecostal way. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I'm going home to glory in the good old fashion way]

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Person Name: R. E. W. Author of "In the Good Old Fashion Way" in Soul Inspiring Songs Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org

Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: P. J. Owens Author of "On the Road, Going Home" in Showers of Blessing Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[We are going home to glory]" in Showers of Blessing William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman