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| Text: | We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home |
| Tune: | [O mothers, get ready and go home] |
| Arranger: | Frank L. Bristow |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | O mothers, get ready and go home |
| Title: | We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home |
| Refrain First Line: | We will lay down the Bible and go home |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1906 |
| Notes: | Now Public Domain. An old minister, after preaching the Gospel for more than fifty years, when dying called his family around him, and asked his wife to hand him his Bible, and holding it in his hand, quoted from it, and thus said, "We will lay down the Bible and go home, Bright angels standing at the door. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [O mothers, get ready and go home] |
| Arranger: | Frank L. Bristow |
| Incipit: | 55111 21165 51333 |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
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