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I Am On The Battlefield For My Lord

Author: Sylvanna Bell; E. V. Banks Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.9 with refrain Appears in 32 hymnals First Line: I once was lone and idle, I was a sinner too Refrain First Line: O I'm on the battlefield for my Lord

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BATTLEFIELD

Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.9 with refrain Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Joubert Tune Sources: Gospel Hymn Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56111 13113 31611 Used With Text: I Am On The Battlefield For My Lord

[I once was lone and idle, I was a sinner too]

Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: V. O. Fossett Incipit: 51111 13133 33353 Used With Text: On the Battle Field

Instances

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I'm On The Battlefield

Author: W. Oliver Cooper Hymnal: Radio Favorites #45 (1966) First Line: I was alone and idle, I was a sinner too Refrain First Line: O, I'm on the battlefield for my Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [I was alone and idle, I was a sinner too]

I'm On the Battlefield

Author: Unknown Hymnal: New Songs of Inspiration Number 3 #160 (1958) First Line: I was alone and idle, I was a sinner, too Refrain First Line: O I'm on the battlefield for my Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [I was alone and idle, I was a sinner, too]

On the Battlefield

Hymnal: Radio Beams No. 2 #172 (1945) First Line: I was alone and idle, I was a sinner too Refrain First Line: Oh! I'm on the battle field for my Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [I was alone and idle, I was a sinner too]

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknwon Author of "I'm On the Battlefield" in Songs of Inspiration In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Albert E. Brumley

1905 - 1977 Arranger of "[I was alone and idle, I was a sinner too]" in Radio Favorites 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. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Thomas Andrew Dorsey

1899 - 1993 Person Name: Thomas A. Dorsey Arranger of "[I was alone and idle]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Thomas Andrew Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, a small rural town near Atlanta, Georgia. In 1919 he moved to Chicago. Most of his musical training was in the church, but he also studied and played jazz and blues. He later combined jazz and blues with religious texts, giving birth to gospel music. In 1931, along with Magnolia Lewis-Butts and Theodore Roosevelt Frye, he established the first gospel choir at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Chicago. He went on to lead the gospel choir at Pilgrim Baptist Church, which he led for 60 years. Dorsey was also instrumental in founding the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC) in 1933. The convention taught choirs all over the country how to sing gospel music. Dianne Shapiro, from "Gospel" in Encyclopedia of Chicago (accessed 8/12/2020)

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