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J. B. Coats
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Short Name: J. B. Coats
Full Name: Coats, J. B. (James Buchanan), 1901-1961
Birth Year: 1901
Death Year: 1961

J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961.

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[A beautiful, beautiful home]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A feeling within you is leading you onward]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A heartbeat felt, a spoken word]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A mocking bird was singing as we stood beside a grave]J. B. Coats (Composer)253333 22221 16155
[A mother old and gray stood silently one day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Adown the narrow road, to heaven's blest abode]J. B. Coats (Composer)323231 12323 11121
[All the way, every day]J. B. Coats (Composer)233233 53353 23323
[At evening, when twilight]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Be saved, the warning comes today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Before I found salvation]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Brother today the way is bright]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Calm on the bosom of thy God] (Coats)J. B. Coats (Arranger)2
[Cast your care upon the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Christ, the Lord is the Life]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Darkness falls around me, hordes of evil hound me]J. B. Coats (Composer)353535 34242 42313
[Dear friend, I've known you but a day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Down deep in my soul a melody rings]J. B. Coats (Composer)451616 53235 66677
[Drifted have I as days have passed by]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Each day I feel a friendly hand]J. B. Coats (Composer)353234 23151 11123
[Each day we read that someone's missing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Earthly life is only one short day]J. B. Coats (Composer)6
[Every day you listen to God's holy Word]J. B. Coats (Composer)233331 12323 21112
[Every passing day all along the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)332315 14323 22757
[Far in the depths and death nearing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Father, like an orphaned child, I am tempted, oft beguiled]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Gentle rivers are flowing free]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Get your ticket ready, board the train for heaven]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Gladly I am singing, cheerful is my ode]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Glory, glory Jesus needs me]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God knows our weakness, when death comes along]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[God needs our souls for His kingdom]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God's hand came stealing, His love revealing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God's holy word in truth divine]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Harmony from heaven haunts me]J. B. Coats (Composer)255555 56566 21777
[Have you a burden, is your heart sad]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Have you ever seen the glory of the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)234545 56122 33432
[Holy be, holy be, holy be Thy name]J. B. Coats (Composer)311611 61122 31161
[I am caught and I'm whirled in this fast moving world]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am dreaming tonight of the home folks]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am longing for heaven and the wonderful time]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am on the rainbow trail]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am saved for a witness]J. B. Coats (Composer)255555 65111 11113
[I have a secret I cannot tell]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I have dreamed a million times of a home in heaven's clime]J. B. Coats (Composer)234563 51235 62314
[I know the Truth, it is food for the soul]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I love to be alone with Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[I often wondered, when I was just a lad]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I remember long ago when just a boy]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I was once a sinner, just a weary sinner]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[I was standing by the bedside of a neighbor old and gray]J. B. Coats (Composer)212333 33344 32171
[I would not walk without Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[If naught of love this world did know]J. B. Coats (Composer)213553 12113 55653
[If sometime you should hear across the night]J. B. Coats (Composer)253323 54321 14444
[If there is a brother in your church or town]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[If you have given your life to Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[If you're needing a friend in this troublesome land]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm a debtor, I know, every day I live]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm leaving for home at the end of the day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm looking for tomorrow]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm treading the highway to glory today]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[In a valley, so green, mother's sleeping today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In all my sin, there was not one who cared]J. B. Coats (Composer)233122 71167 66151
[In heavenly love abiding] (Coats)J. B. Coats (Composer)213234 31354 32111
[In lands afar, across the deep]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In the harvest field today is waving golden grain]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In the rattle of the battle, fighting for my Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[In this world, with all its beauty]J. B. Coats (Composer)234554 56534 55432
[I've a message sinner friend, I would have you hear today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I've a story to tell, 'tis the story of Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)432316 11235 65356
[I've had enough crying, I've had enough sighing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Jesus is my dearest Friend]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Jesus, my heavenly King, loves me, I know]J. B. Coats (Composer)7
[Kind words, like flowers ever blooming]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Let me tell you of a mansion]J. B. Coats (Composer)213333 77211 16555
[Life is filled with great temptations all along the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Life is the station sending messages]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Lord, I feel Thy presence]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Loudly the call to the colors]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Man was made the image of his Maker]J. B. Coats (Composer)455334 47713 55331
[Many are living a life here below]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many sermons have I heard proclaiming God's own Word]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many strange things today we can hear on the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many years ago I found the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)355456 54535 56531
[Many years I've wasted, squandered, on the road of sin]J. B. Coats (Composer)455313 32111 32155
[Master, where shall I work today?]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[My body is weak, overtaken by the fall]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[My prayer today to the Master above]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Oft we are made to weep]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Old Moses lay adreaming, the hour was deep in the midnight]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Once I was a sinner, in darkness all alone]J. B. Coats (Composer)255553 35441 23355
[One bleak day I heard God say]J. B. Coats (Composer)5
[One day a mother came to the prison]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[One day I heard a still, small voice to say]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[One day my soul was saved, saved from the fall]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[One ship driving east and another west]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Press along, rejoicing, each passing day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Raise a mighty song, for a Son is born]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sing of a land where freedom reigns]J. B. Coats (Composer)533333 43422 25433
[Sinner, listen, Holy Spirit calls]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[So many seek pleasures which lead to harm]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Some golden morn, some happy day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Some people like a gilded cage]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sometimes I grieve in sorrow, sometimes I weep aloud]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sometimes up and sometimes down]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Soul far away, think of the woe]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[The Bible tells in Luke nineteen]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[The little cares that fettered me]J. B. Coats (Composer)353333 33135 55535
[The prodigal son found it while he was kneeling]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[The will of God must work within the hearts of living men]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There is a light ever shining]J. B. Coats (Arranger)3
[There is a place just over the sea]J. B. Coats (Composer)455561 33331 33332
[There is a place of gladness beyond this vale of tears]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There's a city of joy and rapture, supernal]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There's a home-coming day up in heaven]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There's a story in the Bible, you have heard it oft before]J. B. Coats (Composer)234546 65356 54421
[This life is hard to understand]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[This life is like a day of time]J. B. Coats (Composer)313343 22135 56544
[Though she is lying full six feet]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Traveling on, singing a song]J. B. Coats (Composer)256135 61356 13555
[Trouble just can't pass you by]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
['Twas late one evening, the sun was low]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Wake up, O sinner, God needs a winner]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[We never know at the dawn of day]J. B. Coats (Composer)633322 21656 16232
[We will go in the strength of the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[What a wonderful feeling]J. B. Coats (Composer)255565 31555 65111
[When I heard the invitation]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When I was a little lad, the best friend I ever had]J. B. Coats (Composer)212333 43112 21213
[When I was but a child, not many years ago]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[When my toiling is over, at setting sun]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When my trials are ended, and my race has been run]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When the cares of life shall have passed away]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When the fervent heat of judgment comes to cover all the world]J. B. Coats (Composer)334554 56555 61765
[When the storms of life sweep over my soul]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When toiling is ended and my burdens are laid down]J. B. Coats (Composer)455451 17133 23111
[When your life is sad and lonely]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Living below in this old sinful world]James B. Coats (Composer)6733331 21121 11233
[Wherever I roam, in joy or in sorrow]J. B. Coats (Composer)313334 46653 33234
[While in this lonely world I plod]J. B. Coats (Composer)555555 66533 23122
[While traveling through a weary land]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[While we're praying, while we're pleading]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Who but God can paint the sky]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Who conquers the world beneath the sun]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Wonderful the love of Jesus, from all fear the Spirit frees us]J. B. Coats (Composer)365656 16565 65616
[Workers on a building rare]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[You have read the Holy Bible and you know what should be done]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
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