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I Will Be True the Live-Long Day

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Appears in 4 hymnals Used With Tune: [I will be true the live-long day]

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[I will be true the livelong day]

Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Sources: Adapted from an English Melody Incipit: 51235 32165 61232 Used With Text: I Will Be True the Livelong Day
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[I will be true the live-long day]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Claude T. Carr Incipit: 53563 32135 67554 Used With Text: I Will Be True the Live-Long Day

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I Will Be True the Livelong Day

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Hymns for Primary Worship #124 (1946) Languages: English Tune Title: [I will be true the livelong day]
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I Will Be True the Live-Long Day

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Junior Hymns and Songs #83 (1927) Languages: English Tune Title: [I will be true the live-long day]
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I Will Be True the Live-Long Day

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Worship and Conduct Songs #108 (1929) Languages: English Tune Title: [I will be true the live-long day]

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Nancy Byrd Turner

1880 - 1971 Author of "I Will Be True the Livelong Day" in Hymns for Primary Worship Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951. --Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.

Claude T. Carr

Composer of "[I will be true the live-long day]" in Worship and Conduct Songs
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