Albert E. Brumley

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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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.
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Texts by Albert E. Brumley (288)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A Dios las gracias yo doy que he renacidoAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish1
Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abodeA. E. B. (Author)English7
Algún día cuando esto terminéAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish1
All the world is bright and cheeryA. E. B. (Author)English2
Amid the shadows of life I wend my wayA. E. B. (Author)English1
As I go traveling day by dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
As I journey through this vale of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English21
As I travel through this pilgrim landA. E. B. (Author)English59
As you wend your way to the soul's abodeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Back through the years I'd like to wend my wayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Beyond this land of shadowsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Brother, while this world you're traveling through, speak a little word for the Master trueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
By the crystal river we shall live forever over in a land where comes no nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Come and listen in to a radio stationA. E. B. (Author)English8
Cual ave triste en su prisiónAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish1
Dear Lord of Calvary, again I come to theeA. E. B. (Author)3
Do you live a life that's true for the One who died for you?Albert E. Brumley (Author)English7
Do you need a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Do you stand on the brink of decisionAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
Dreamin' in the glimerin' twilight, dreamin' of a flickerin' firelightA. E. B. (Author)English2
El mundo no es mi hogar, soy peregrinoAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish1
En todo este mundo séAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish1
Ever since Jesus saved and pardoned I have been singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English10
Every time I do a deedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English7
Every time I feel the least bit unworthyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Every evening when I count my blessingsA. E. B. (Author)English1
Every springtime gayA. E. B. (Author)English2
Everybody it seems has a cabin of dreamsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Far beyond the clouds a home is waitingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Far beyond this land of sorrow, There's a city of delightA. E. B. (Author)English2
Flowers blooming in the wild woodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
For the truth and the rightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
Give me a life filled with old fashionedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Give me back the old time powerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Gone is all my weight of sinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Hark, I hear the voice of Jesus To the harvest fields awayA. E. B. (Arranger)English2
Hark! the voice of Jesus crying, "Who will go and work today?"A. E. B. (Arranger)English1
Have you ever been down to community singAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Hello, I'm just a strangerA. E. B. (Author)English2
Here I have my full shareA. E. B. (Author)English1
Here I plod along on life's uneven journeyA. E. B. (Author)English1
Here I stand beside death's chilly waters waiting for my final callAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English16
Here so many are breaking traditionsA. E. B. (Author)English7
Here so oft we are turned fromAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Here so often I'm lonely, here so often I'm blueA. E. B. (Author)English1
Here we move from place to placeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Here you pass me on the highways in this unfriendly landA. E. B. (Author)English2
Honest and truly, Lord, Sometimes my feet would strayA. E. B. (Author)English3
How much could we gain with a pray'r, If God wasn't really there?Albert E. Brumley (Author)1
How sweet the memory of days that used to beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I am fully saved since my heart I gaveAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I am just another wayworn pilgrimA. E. B. (Author)English8
I am on my journey To that city foursquareA.E.B. (Author)3
I am on my way to heaven, I am on my way to heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English2
I am on the way to mansions in the sweet by and byAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
I am so glad I heard my Savior gently pleadingA. E. B. (Author)English3
I am telling the grand old story of the wonderful King of gloryA. E. B. (Author)English1
I am thinking about the day when our Savior knelt down to prayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I am thinking of a celebrationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I am tired and weary, but I must toil onA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
I am weak but Thou art strongAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English1
I believe that Jesus died on the crossAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I believe that Jesus is the Son of GodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
I cannot touch the hem of His garmentAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
I don't know exactly how sweetA.E.B. (Author)5
I have been redeemed, I have free salvationA. E. B. (Author)English2
I have fondest recollection of the days that used to beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I have just enlisted in the service of the KingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
I have read about that city gransAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
I have read about the beauties of the South SeasA. E. B. (Author)English1
I have started for a city in a land of fadeless dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I have started for a city on that bright eternalA. E. B. (Author)7
I hear a mighty chorus sweetly singing over on that bright, eternal shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I hear the angel band, I'm nearing glorylandA. E. B. (Author)English1
I hear the Savior calling todayA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
I know the Lord will make a way for me, I know the Lord will make a way for meAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English2
I know there is a land of beautiful flowersAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
I stand beside death's sullen streamAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I used to be a sinner, an erring child of GodA. E. B. (Author)English2
I used to be a sinner and my load was hard to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I wandered again to my home in the mountainsA. E. B. (Author)English1
I wandered again to my old cabin homeA. E. B. (Author)English3
I wandered in sin and sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I want to be an example for the truth and the rightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I was listening in to a radio stationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I was once lost in sin, despairingA. E. B. (Author)English4
I was standing by the protals of churchAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I was turning through my mother's dear old BibleA. E. B. (Author)English1
I was wandering far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shameA.E.B. (Author)English12
I went on a visit, On a heavenly visitA. E. B. (Author)English1
I will meet you in the morning by the bright river sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English54
If I had all the words in our languageA. E. B. (Author)English2
If I owned all the gold and the silverA. E. B. (Author)English1
If the Love of God has saved youAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
If the Savior came to your house unexpectedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
If working and praying has any rewardAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English11
If you are burdened down with careA. E. B. (Author)English10
If you are burdened, weary and oppressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
If you have never heard the story of the Christ of GalileeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
If you travel sin's uncertain wayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
If you wander all alone in sin and darkest nightA. E. B. (Author)English2
If you want to be a ChristianAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
If you will give to me your undivided attentionAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
If you would be a true disciple, you've got to do it rightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
If you would ever do your very bestAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
If you've never known the glory of Salvation's grand old storyA. E. B. (Author)English1
I'm going to a celebration Up yonder in the skyA. E. B. (Author)English5
I'm laying my treasures up in the skyA. E. B. (Author)English2
I'm only an orphanAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I'm pressing on through this world of careA. E. B. (Author)English4
I'm traveling on to the new JerusalemA. E. B. (Author)English4
I'm waiting by the river sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
In a land far away is a soldier todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
In a little while this fleeting life will all be overAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
In all this world so big and wideA. E. B. (Author)English1
In dreams of yesterday I wanderedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
In sin I once was straying, no thought of ever prayingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
In the long ago the precious Savior'sAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
In the new found way, the gospel highwayA. E. B. (Author)English9
In this busy life with its changing scenesA. E. B. (Author)English4
In this world I've tried most everything And I'm happy now to sayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English21
In this world I've tried most everythingA.E.B. (Author)1
Is there anybody here today that wants to change their wayA. E. B. (Author)English4
It seemed I had traveled for agesAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
It was springtime, the flowers were gayA. E. B. (Author)English1
It was the blood of the crucified OneAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I've a friend close by my sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I've a smile of gladnessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
I've been pardoned by the blood of Jesus, I've been ransomed by the crimson flowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I've been reading my BibleA. E. B. (Author)English1
I've had the blood applied and I am satisfiedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I've heard them sing He paid the priceAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
I've heard them sing of home sweet homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
I've just about tarried long enough hereAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal lightA. E. B. (Author)English2
Jesus gave His life a ransom yonder on CalvaryA.E.B. (Author)English24
Jesus gave His life to pardon every nationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Jesus, I've wasted so much of my timeA. E. B. (Author)1
Just beyond death's rolling riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Just suppose that the world turned against youA. E. B. (Author)2
Let me go down to the banks of the riverA. E. B. (Author)English2
Let the little sunbeam inA. E. B. (Arranger)5
Life's few allotted years is but a trail of tearsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Like a ship on the sea you are driftingA. E. B. (Author)English5
Lily-white hands will lead me safe through the valleyA. E. B. (Author)English3
Listen to the gladsome harbor bellsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Listen to the voices sweetly callingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Long ago in old Judea, by the Galilean shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Look, look, look by His light we're ledAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Look to the western horizonAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Looking back through the years to a mangerA. E. B. (Author)English2
Lord, how well do I know I'll have little to showAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger hereA. E. B. (Author)English11
Lord, I would not ask a special blessingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Lord, the nights are so long and my burdens so greatA. E. B. (Author)1
Many are wanedring out in darknessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Many have loads to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Many the time I am torn with disappointmentAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Many times my soul is over burdenedA. E. B. (Author)English2
Many years I roamed, many years I trodA. E. B. (Author)English2
May we all walk closer to Thy sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
May we meet again some bright tomorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Mine has been a life of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
My race is nearly run, my workAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
My Savior died upon the crossA. E. B. (Author)1
No matter how dark the nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
No place to hide when days are long and drearyA. E. B. (Author)English3
Now, brother, I am confessing that I've wandered in paths of sinA. E. B. (Author)English1
Now you surely could if you only would stand on that rock where Moses stoodA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
O I don't have to tell you what the Lord has doneA. E. B. (Author)2
O listen to the voice of Jesus, as He calls for you todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
O the dawn of the mornAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
O you compromising Christian on life's wayA. E. B. (Author)English1
Often the burdens of life Seem hard to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Often times I sit down in my parlorA. E. B. (Author)English1
Often when the evening shadows are fallingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
On that eternal morning in yonder landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
On the cross of Calvary our blessed Savior diedA. E. B. (Author)English23
On the rugged cross of Calvary, Jesus died for you and meA.E.B. (Author)English1
On the rugged cross of Calvary, Jesus gave His life for youAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English21
Once from God I wanderedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Once I wandered out in sin Far, far awayA. E. B. (Author)English1
Once I was sighing, My Savior denyingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Once like a bird in prison I dweltA.E.B. (Author)English22
Once my life was sad and dreary and the road was rough and longA. E. B. (Author (Chorus))English1
Once my soul was astray from the heavenly wayA. E. B. (Arranger)English3
Once some men were chatting in a little country storeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
One by one, the Savior calls his childrenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
One day I met an old fashioned motherAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
One glad day Jesus cameAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Out in this cold world, and far away from homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Over on the bright elysian shoreA. E. B. (Author)English19
Part of my life brings tears of regretAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Press along, weary pilgrim, through the struggles and strifeA. E. B. (Author)English6
Ride on, God's children, to that beautiful landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Seems that I can see a little chapelA. E. B. (Author)English2
Since I have turned from sinful pleasure Jesus has freely blest my soulAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Since I reached life's goal I'd like to stroll back to the foldAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Singing, singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
So many years I wandered, precious moments squanderedA. E. B. (Author)English1
So oft I dream of heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Some day I shall stand in God's cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English9
Some day our last goodbyes on earth will all be spokenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Some delightful morning we shall have a better lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Some glad morning when this life is o'erAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English86
Some mother's boy has gone astrayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Some people often ask me where I goAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Somebody ought to go and work for JesusA. E. B. (Author)English6
Somebody's been a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Somebody's blue, weary and blueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Somehow tonight I'm lonesomeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Sometimes the roses bloom and every thing is gayA. E. B. (Author)English2
Sometimes when my pathway I hardly can seeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Sometimes when sorrow overcomes us and the darkness hovers lowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Somewhere deep in the hills, among the wild flowersA. E. B. (Author)English1
Soon we'll come to the end of life's journeyA. E. B. (Author)English55
Sure, there's a God who is ruling on highAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Take me back I pray if only for a dayA. E. B. (Author)English1
Take my hand in Thine, O LordAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Tell me - if there is no Higher Power, then who hung the stars in the sky?A. E. B. (Author)2
Thank God! I truly can say that I've been born againAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
The love of the Lord can paint the morning skiesA. E. B. (Author)English1
The world's greatest story in the Bible is toldA. E. B. (Author)English7
There are mansions high, there are mansions wideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There are mothers with beautiful featuresAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
There are people who would rather live in splendorA. E. B. (Author)English1
There is a city, bright eternal way over on the golden strandAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
There is a city of wonderful love eternalAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
There is a Friend to whom I clingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is a most wondrous cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
There is a song that the world is singingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is an old fashioned cabinA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is gladness all aroundAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
There is many a cross to carryA. E. B. (Author)English4
There is plenty of sunshineAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
There's a blessed land of song and storyA. E. B. (Author)1
There's a certain feeling that I never can expressA. E. B. (Author)English1
There's a city of lightAlbert Brumley (Author)1
There's a city of light, where there cometh no night (Brumley)Albert Brumley (Author)English10
There's a city over there, a city bright and fairAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
There's a constant ringing in my earA. E. B. (Author)English1
There's a heavenly land of peace and joy eternalAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
There's a little old church in a valleyA. E. B. (Author)English1
There's a little pine log cabinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
There's a valley where the mocking birds are singingA. E. B. (Author)English1
There's a way that leads to joys of everlasting lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
There's an old ramshackle shackAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
They crucified my Savior, They crucified my Savior (Brumley)A. E. B. (Arranger)English2
They killed my Lord on CalvaryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
They're having a big revivalA.E.B. (Author)3
This world is not my home, I'm just passing byAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I beA. E. B. (Author)English7
Though you wander in the bywaysAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
To the flaming field of battle! We are marching to warAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understandA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
Ve conmigo, mi buen SalvadorA.E.B. (Author)Spanish1
We are a band of Christians marching on to victoryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
We love the Red, White and BlueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Well, I went down to the big camp meetin'A. E. B. (Author)English3
Well, who could it be that tenderly holds my trembling handAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
We've answered to the battle cry to conquer over sinA. E. B. (Author)English1
What a beautiful thought I am thinkingA. E. B. (Arranger)1
What a happy day of jubilationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
What makes the flowersAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When heavy burdens oppress me and everything goes wrongA. E. B. (Author)English1
When I have reached myAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When I reach that golden shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
When I was steeped in sin my Savior took me inA. E. B. (Author)1
When my hair to silver is turningA. E. B. (Author)English5
When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slowA. E. B. (Author)English4
When my time comes to cross o'er the riverA. E. B. (Author)4
When the Savior gave hisAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When the storms of life are raging all around youA. E. B. (Author)English1
When the way of life I cannot understandAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When the world would try to leadAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When you by sorrow are distressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When you have reached the end of your journeyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
When you're feeling discouraged and lonelyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
While treading upon the sands of timeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
While we stand by the riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Why am I weeping, why do I sighAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Why must the world be tornAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Wonderful the praise that is coming from heaven, over on the bright eternal shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English1
Wonderful things of folks are saidA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
Won't it be a happy, happy dayA. E. B. (Author)English8
That will be a happy morning over the seaAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English11
You better get acquainted with your Lord a little betterA. E. B. (Author)English7
You may not feel the gentle handAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1

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