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Text:It Pays to Keep a Song in Your Heart
Author:O. L. S.
Tune:[Though the shadows of sin abound, as you travel along]
Composer:O. L. Sims

121. It Pays to Keep a Song in Your Heart

Text Information
First Line: Though the shadows of sin abound, as you travel along
Title: It Pays to Keep a Song in Your Heart
Author: O. L. S.
Refrain First Line: It pays to keep a song in your heart
Language: English
Publication Date: 1948
Copyright: © 1942, by Tenn. Music Ptg. Co., in "Rays of Hope"
Tune Information
Name: [Though the shadows of sin abound, as you travel along]
Composer: O. L. Sims
Incipit: 55656 31323 21615
Copyright: © 1942, by Tenn. Music Ptg. Co., in "Rays of Hope"



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