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| Text: | Gone to a Better World |
| Author: | D. W. Rountree |
| Tune: | GONE TO A BETTER WORLD |
| Composer: | D. Wilson Rountree |
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Farewell, dear parents, I must go |
| Title: | Gone to a Better World |
| Author: | D. W. Rountree |
| Meter: | C.M. |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Notes: | This song was written at Banks, Alabama, on July 15, 1927, in memory of Elizabeth Wesley, daughter of Clifford & Rashell Wesley, who died July 3, 1927, aged 8. |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | GONE TO A BETTER WORLD |
| Composer: | D. Wilson Rountree (1927) |