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Somebody's boy
Author: Floy S. Armstrong Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Homeless and friendless he wanders today
Somebody's boy
[Homeless and friendless he wanders today]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 33332 35555 67154 Used With Text: Somebody's Boy
[Homeless and friendless he wanders today]
Somebody's Boy
Author: Floy S. Armstrong Hymnal: The New Make Christ King #243 (1914) First Line: Homeless and friendless he wanders today Refrain First Line: Somebody's boy! Somebody's boy Lyrics: 1 Homeless and friendless he wanders today
Into the pathways of shame;
Only a drunkard, an outcast, you say,
But he’s somebody’s boy, just the same.
Chorus:
Somebody’s boy! Somebody’s boy!
What if that boy were mine?
Somebody’s boy! Somebody’s boy!
What if that boy were mine?
2 Somewhere it may be a mother in prayer
Whispers the wanderer’s name;
Tho’ he has spurned both her counsel and care
He is some mother’s boy, just the same. [Chorus]
3 See how the tempter, destructive and bold,
Ever is seeking for prey;
Tales of wrecked manhood and ruin are told—
Of the boys that are ruined each day. [Chorus]
4 Spurn then the gold from the dramseller’s hand
Buying your sanction to vice;
Banish the dramshops that darken our land,
For your boy and my boy pays the price. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [Homeless and friendless he wanders today]
Somebody's Boy
Somebody's Boy
Author: Floy S. Armstrong Hymnal: The Anti-Saloon League Song Book #5 (1915) First Line: Homeless and friendless he wanders today Refrain First Line: Somebody's boy! Languages: English Tune Title: [Homeless and friendless he wanders today]
Somebody's Boy
Somebody's Boy
Author: Floy S. Armstrong Hymnal: Diadems #88 (1913) First Line: Homeless and friendless he wanders today Refrain First Line: Somebody's boy! Languages: English Tune Title: [Homeless and friendless he wanders today]
Somebody's Boy
Chas. H. Gabriel
1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Homeless and friendless he wanders today]" in Joy to the World Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree
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For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades.
Bert Polman
Chas. H. Gabriel
