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I'm Going Back to Jesus

Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: I'm going back to Jesus, I can no longer wander

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[I am going back to Jesus]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. E. Pollock Incipit: 34555 56161 11165 Used With Text: I Am Going Back to Jesus
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[I'm going back to Jesus]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: C. A. White Incipit: 35567 11111 16655 Used With Text: I'm Going Back to Jesus

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Am Going Back to Jesus

Hymnal: Jewel Songs #180 (1910) First Line: I am going back to Jesus I can no longer wander Languages: English Tune Title: [I am going back to Jesus I can no longer wander]

I am going back to Jesus I can no longer wander

Hymnal: Living Water Songs No. 2 #d40 (1908) Languages: English
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I'm Going Back to Jesus

Hymnal: Sermons in Song No. 2 #151 (1899) First Line: I'm going back to Jesus, I can no longer wander Languages: English

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Charles Edward Pollock

1853 - 1928 Person Name: C. E. Pollock Arranger of "[I am going back to Jesus]" in Victorious Songs Charles Edward Pollock USA 1853-1928. Born at Newcastle, PA, he moved to Jefferson City, MO, when age 17. He was a cane maker for C W Allen. He also worked 20 years for the MO Pacific Railroad, as a depot clerk and later as Assistant Roadmaster. He was a musician and prolific songwriter, composing 5000+ songs, mostly used in Sunday school settings and church settings. He took little remuneration for his compositions, preferring they be freely used. He produced three songbooks: “Praises”, “Beauty of praise”, and “Waves of melody”. In 1886 he married Martha (Mattie) Jane Harris, and they had three children: Robert, Edward, and a daughter. He died in Merriam, KS. John Perry ================= Pollock, Charles Edward. (Jefferson City, Missouri, 1853-1924). Records of Jefferson City indicate the following: 1897 clerk at depot; residence at 106 Broadway (with Mildred Pollock) 1904-1905 cane maker for C. W. Allen 1908-1909 musician; residence at 106 Broadway (with wife Matty) 1912-1913 residence at St. Louis Road, east city limits --Wilmer Swope, DNAH Archives Note: not to be confused with Charles Edward Pollock (c.1871-1924).

Henry H. Hadley

1841 - 1903 Author of "I'm Going Back to Jesus" in Rescue Songs

C. A. White

Composer of "[I'm going back to Jesus]" in Rescue Songs Prof. C. A. White, of the Wilberforce Concert Company, composed a tune found in the African Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1898) called LEE, #730.
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