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Text:I'm On My Way to Home, Sweet Home
Author:J. H. Howell
Tune:[Far out in sin I once did roam]
Composer:A. J. Sims

156. I'm On My Way to Home, Sweet Home

Text Information
First Line: Far out in sin I once did roam
Title: I'm On My Way to Home, Sweet Home
Author: J. H. Howell (1940)
Refrain First Line: My sins are gone, my cares are past
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Copyright: © 1940, by A. J. Showalter co., in "Bells of Heaven"
Tune Information
Name: [Far out in sin I once did roam]
Composer: A. J. Sims (1940)
Incipit: 13233 53553 21123
Copyright: © 1940, by A. J. Showalter co., in "Bells of Heaven"



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