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Albert E. Brumley
Albert E. Brumley
Short Name: Albert E. Brumley
Full Name: Brumley, Albert E. 1905-1977
Birth Year: 1905
Death Year: 1977

Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri.

Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.

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Wikipedia Biography

Albert Edward Brumley (October 29, 1905 – November 15, 1977) was an American shape note music composer and publisher, prolific in the genre of southern gospel.

Tunes by Albert E. Brumley (186)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abode]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)5
[All the world is bright and cheery]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334532 31334 53521
[Amid the shadows of life I wend my way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
ANCIENT LANDMARKAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)334555 34451 17656
[As an army we're marching to heaven]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112335 53321 12335
[As I journey through this vale of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)6
[As I travel through this pilgrim land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2155565 31113 23216
[Back through the years I'd like to wend my way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)251235 45416 11243
[Brother, while this world you're traveling through, speak a little word for the Master true]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[By the crystal river we shall live forever over in a land where comes no night]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)355556 53323 21555
CLOSER WALK (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[Come and listen in to a radio station]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)5
[Do you live a life that's true for the One who died for you?]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[Do you stand on the brink of decision]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Dreamin' in the gilmerin' twilight, dreamin' of a flickerin' firelight]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[En todo este mundo sé]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)253334 55534 4465
[Ever since Jesus saved and pardoned I have been singing every day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)633455 45664 56533
[Every evening when I count my blessings]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Every springtime gay]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Ev'ry time I do a deed I shouldn't do]Albert M. Brumley (Composer)3
[Far beyond this land of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[For the truth and the right, precious Lord, have I stood] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Give me back the old time power]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256533 23156 53323
[Gone is all my weight of sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256161 65313 21615
GONNA SHINEAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)233213 35433 21442
[Hark! I hear the voice of Jesus] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)3
[Hello, I'm just a stranger]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Here I plod along on life's uneven journey]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Here I stand beside death's chilly waters waiting for my final call]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Here so often I'm lonely, here so often I'm blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Here you pass me on the highways in this unfriendly land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Honest and truly, Lord]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)454565 34341 23545
[I am just another way-worn pilgrim]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)433323 45321 21121
[I am on my way to heaven]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[I am on the way to mansions in the sweet by and by]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)455553 45153 44324
[I am so glad I heard my Savior gently pleading]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)332355 53213 21313
[I am telling the grand old story of the wonderful King of glory]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234555 45653 21117
[I cannot touch the hem of His garment]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)434451 32161 17655
[I have fondest recollection of the days that used to be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I have just enlisted in the service of the King]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I have left the land of bondage with its earthly treasures]Albert E. brumley (Composer)1132321 23212 17616
[I have read about the beauties of the South Seas]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I have started for a city in a land of fadeless day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I have started for a city on that bright eternal shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334555 56511 64444
[I hear the angel band, I'm nearing gloryland]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)253322 32111 11766
[I hear the Savior calling today]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)134555 56165 34512
[I know the Lord will make a way for me] (Harris)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)151233 34231 33455
[I know there is a land of beautiful flowers]Albert E. brumley (Composer)3
[I oft take a trip to scenes of my childhood]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I used to be a sinner, an erring child of God]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I used to be a sinner and my load was hard to bear]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I wandered again to my home in the mountains]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I wandered again to my old cabin home]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)251113 23216 51355
[I once was lone and idle, I was a sinner too]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)151111 13133 33353
[I was listening into a radio station]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I was once lost in sin, despairing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)553332 34312 11171
[I was turning through my mother's dear old Bible]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I was wandering far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shame]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I was wand'ring far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shame]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I went on a visit]Albert E. brumley (Composer)2
[I will meet you in the morning by the bright river side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2355533 43111 21613
[If I had all the words in our language]Albert E. brumley (Composer)2
[If I owned all the gold and the silver]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If the Savior came to your house unexpected]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If working and praying has any reward]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[If you are burdened down with care]Albert E. brumley (Composer)556535 11332 32116
[If you have never heard the story of the Christ of Galilee]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If you wander all alone in sin and darkest night]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If you will give to me your undivided attention]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If you would be a true disciple, you've got to do it right]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)253111 32355 31161
I'LL FLY AWAYAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)4631513 23431 66531
[I'm going to a celebration]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)235454 53213 21121
[I'm laying my treasures up in the sky]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I'm pressing on through this world of care]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[I'm traveling on to the new Jerusalem]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[I'm waiting by the river side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[In a land far away is a soldier today]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[In a little while this fleeting life will all be over]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)356543 23211 76565
[In sin I once was straying, no thought of ever praying]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[In the new found way, the gospel highway]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334533 22113 55556
[In this busy life with its changing scenes]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)311355 33231 11355
[In this world I've tried most everything]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)912355 53211 23556
[Is there anybody here today that wants to change their way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334555 55531 33331
[It seemed I had traveled for ages]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I've a friend close by my side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I've been reading my Bible]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I've heard them sing He paid the price]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal light]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Jesus gave His life a ransom yonder on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1055561 11133 32116
[Just beyond death's rolling river]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[Let me go down to the banks of the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Like a ship on the sea you are drifting]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334555 61653 56561
[Lily-white hands will lead me safe through the valley]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233456 53132 16111
[Listen to the voices sweetly calling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Long ago in old Judea, by the Galilean shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234555 32121 64615
[Look, look, look by His light we're led]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Look to the western horizon]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Looking back through the years to a manger]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234531 46653 55522
[Lord, how well do I know I'll have little to show]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger here]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)456533 32321 13345
[Lord, I would not ask a special blessing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Lord, the nights are so long and my burdens so great]Albert E. Brumley, 1905-1977 (Composer)212332 11655 43555
[Many the time I am torn with disappointment]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Many times my soul is over burdened]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)232113 45653 55666
[Many years I roamed]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255331 17161 16513
[May we all walk closer to Thy side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[May we meet again some bright tomorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
MEET AGAINAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)2634532 32161 12355
[Mine has been a life of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233213 55323 44543
[No place to hide when days are long and dreary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Now, brother, I am confessing that I've wandered in paths of sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[O you compromising Christian on life's way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Often the burdens of life]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)356656 53232 15665
[Often times I sit down in my parlor]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255512 32135 32112
[Often when the evening shadows are falling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255556 55443 35555
[O the dawn of the morn]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256513 23116 51232
[On the cross of Calvary our blessed Savior died]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1534523 21332 16556
[On the rugged cross of Calvary] (Brumley)Albert E. brumley (Composer)1153123 51615 13565
[Once I wandered out in sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Once I was sighing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Once like a bird in prison I dwelt]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)855613 55611 11321
[Once my soul was astray from the heavenly way]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)354563 55617 15561
[One day I met an old fashioned mother]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Out in this cold world, and far away from home] (Hanna)A. E. Brumley (Arranger)131233 12161 51135
[Over on the bright elysian shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)933445 54653 23232
[Part of my life brings tears of regret]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Press along, weary pilgrim, through the struggles and strife]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)756153 23134 55655
[Ride on God's children to that beautiful land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255616 56356 15565
[Seems that I can see a little chapel]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[So many years I wandered, precious moments squandered]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Some day our last goodbyes on earth will all be spoken]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Some people often ask me where I go]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233234 32165 33553
[Somebody ought to go and work for Jesus]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Somebody's been a friend indeed]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Somebody's blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)254534 64344 65435
[Some day I shall stand in God's city]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)356111 32165 56165
[Sometimes the roses bloom and every thing is gay]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Sometimes when my pathway I hardly can see]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Soon this life will all be over]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112332 43112 32121
[Sure, there's a God who is ruling on high]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Take me back I pray if only for a day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255565 31112 32111
[Take my hand in Thine, O Lord]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Thank God! I truly can say that I've been born again]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)456556 53116 76422
[The world's greatest story in the Bible is told]Albert E. Brumley, 1905-1977 (Composer)235321 51164 65555
[There are mansions high, there are mansions wide]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There are mothers with beautiful features]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There are people who would rather live in splendor]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234545 45456 53217
[There is a city, bright eternal 'way over on the golden strand]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There is a city of wonderful love eternal]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255535 53131 65611
[There is a Friend to whom I cling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)353451 11117 66553
[There is a most wondrous city]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There is a song that the world is singing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)354533 23455 54567
[There is an old-fashioned cabin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There is many a cross to carry]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[There's a certain feeling that I never can express]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255113 35544 64324
[There's a city of light]Albert Brumley (Composer)4
[There's a heavenly land of peace and joy eternal]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There's a little pine log cabin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There's a valley where the mocking birds are singing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There's a way that leads to joys of everlasting life]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There's an old ramshackle shack]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[They crucified my Savior] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[They killed my Lord on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin thru]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2913332 13211 65511
[Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Though you wander in the byways]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[We are a band of Christians marching on to victory]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233324 32165 54655
[We love the Red, White and Blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Well, I went down to the big camp meetin']Albert E. Brumley (Composer)313553 35532 13353
[Well, who could it be that tenderly holds my trembling hand]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[We've answered to the battle cry to conquer over sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[What a beautiful thought I am thinking]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)3
[When He calls me I will answer]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112314 43213 32744
[When I'm through with all my trouble]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[When my hair to silver is turning]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)313556 66533 23116
[When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[When the storms of life are raging all around you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[While traveling upon the sands of time]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)331113 23212 16551
[While we stand by the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255523 21111 21616
WHOLE WORLD (Spiritual)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)255353 13555 55442
[Why am I weeping, why do I sigh]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256531 21615 56533
[Wonderful the praise that is coming from heaven, over on the bright eternal shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Wonderful things of folks are said]A. E. B. (Arranger)131616 51233 25231
[Won't it be a happy, happy day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[You are who you are for a reason]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)212321 45651 35552
[You better get acquainted with your Lord a little better]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)6

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