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| Short Name: | W. Elmo Mercer |
| Full Name: | Mercer, W. Elmo |
| Birth Year: | 1932 |
| Death Year: | 2020 |
William Elmo Mercer wrote more than 1,600 songs and worked extensively as a music arranger. Arguably his best known song is “Each Step I Take." Mercer worked for the John T. Benson company from 1951 to 1981 as a music editor. He also consulted for LifeWay, Lorenz, Brentwood, and other music companies. He and his wife Marcia traveled as singing evangelists for three decades and he served as the music minister for Scottsboro First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Monty Lynn, from "William Elmo Mercer," Southern Gospel History, https://www.sghistory.com/
Tunes by W. Elmo Mercer (35) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| [As I rest at the close of a long, weary day] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34535 16117 65334 |
| BEHOLD THE LAMB (Rambo) | W. Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 1 | 51111 23455 56333 |
| BENSON (Mercer) | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 53332 11166 51354 |
| [Dear Lord, I am trying to live day by day] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 53563 15611 51136 |
| [Did you ever want to know] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34533 43211 46517 |
| [Do you know my Jesus] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 35436 26432 32121 |
| [Do you need a friend to keep you till the end] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 3 | 34453 32164 23456 |
| [Each step I take my Savior goes before me] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 22 | 51354 65123 32343 |
| [Hark! as One, to the door approaches] | Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 2 | |
| [I can feel the fire a-burning in my heart] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 56111 16512 32112 |
| [I can hear the joy bells ringing] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 32356 13221 25672 |
| [I can't stray away from Thee] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34311 65511 71321 |
| [I have decided once for all, I will answer my Savior's call] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | |
| [I have looked across a meadow] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 3 | 54323 45323 45432 |
| [I often grow homesick for heaven] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 13556 53215 11121 |
| [I will never leave thee, I will not forsake] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 33532 14456 51563 |
| [If I were to ask a blessing from God] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 51111 32116 55513 |
| [In fancy I can see] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 55536 55331 43211 |
| [In this ever changing world below] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 54513 12667 67127 |
| [I've found someone who cares for me] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 53523 16511 12325 |
| [Jesus bids me to follow Him] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 33345 22277 71233 |
| [Many years in sin I've wasted] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34556 55132 14616 |
| [My heart will sing of Him] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 35376 71215 54465 |
| [No wonder that I love Him] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 55343 26653 25721 |
| [O I'm gonna give my heart to Jesus, yes, I am] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 51335 56533 22151 |
| [Once I drifted away from the harbor of life] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 33321 51321 65511 |
| [País donde no hay sombras ni tinieblas] (13332) | W. Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 2 | 13332 21223 15655 |
| [Soon my Lord will call for me] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 11311 65171 23121 |
| [That day when they crucified my Savior] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 3 | |
| [The devil tempted Jesus] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 13556 53121 32113 |
| [The way that He loves is as fair as the day] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 6 | 51135 35653 21316 |
| [There is a refuge safe indeed] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 56532 12323 47656 |
| [There's a song within my heart] (Mercer) | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34316 15123 13523 |
| [There's Someone who loves every sinner] | W. Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 1 | 13333 45651 33334 |
| [Up the Calvary way] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 3 | 34555 56544 44543 |
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