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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 (203)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abode]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)6
[All my affections are nailed to the cross]Albert E. Brumley (Harmonizer)2
[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)434555 34451 17656
[As an army we're marching to heaven]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)212335 53321 12335
[As I go traveling day by day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[As I journey through this vale of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)851323 43216 15551
[As I travel through this pilgrim land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3055565 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)455556 53323 21555
CLOSER WALK (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[Come and listen in to a radio station]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)6
[Dear Lord of Calvary, again I come to Thee]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[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)4
[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)3
[For the truth and the right, precious Lord, have I stood] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[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)433213 35433 21442
[Hark! I hear the voice of Jesus] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)4
[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 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)533323 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 am walking with my Savior day by day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I believe that Jesus is the Son of God]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I cannot touch the hem of His garment]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)434451 32161 17655
[I have been redeemed, I have free salvation]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[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)1532321 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)534555 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)6
[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)4
[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)2955533 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)556561 14561 3121
[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)3
[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)5531513 23431 66531
[I'm going to a celebration]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)335454 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)456111 56532 11111
[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)4
[In the new found way, the gospel highway]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)634533 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)1212355 53211 23556
[Is there anybody here today that wants to change their way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)434555 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)6
[I've just about tarried long enough here]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)235553 33231 13332
[I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal light]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)313321 33551 33332
[Jesus gave His life a ransom yonder on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1555561 11133 32116
[Just beyond death's rolling river]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[Just suppose that the world turned against you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Let me go down to the banks of the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Let the little sunbeam in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Like a ship on the sea you are drifting]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)534555 61653 56561
[Lily-white hands will lead me safe through the valley]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)333456 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)4
[Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger here]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)556533 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)3
[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)3
MEET AGAINAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)3534532 32161 12355
[Mine has been a life of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233213 55323 44543
[My Savior died upon the cross]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[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)1934523 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)1055613 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)1133445 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)455616 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)3
[Somebody's blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)254534 64344 65435
[Some day I shall stand in God's city]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)756111 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)354565 45443 43423
[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
[Tell me - if there is no Higher Power, then who hung the stars in the sky?]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)435321 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)354653 22117 21465
[There is joy, joy, joy since the Lord came in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[There is many a cross to carry]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[There's a blessed land of song and story]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)253211 16716 56531
[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)634555 35566 65551
[There's a city over there, a city bright and fair]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234555 55566 66665
[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)3
[They killed my Lord on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[They're having a big revival]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin thru]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3613332 13211 65511
[Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[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 was steeped in sin my Savior took me in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[When I'm through with all my trouble]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[When my hair to silver is turning]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)413556 66533 23116
[When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[When my time comes to cross the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[When the storms of life are raging all around you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[When the way of life I cannot understand]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)155353 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)616561 61651 23333
[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)7

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