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Dreams of home

Author: James Rowe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Our thoughts go back to other days

[Our tho'ts go back to other days]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Hubert Ellis Tune Key: A Flat Major Used With Text: Dreams of Home

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Dreams of Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Cornelius' Gospel Songs #195 (1927) First Line: Our tho'ts go back to other days Languages: English Tune Title: [Our tho'ts go back to other days]

Dreams of home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Home Gospel Songs No. 2 #d137 (1927) First Line: Our thoughts go back to other days Languages: English

Dreams of home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 2 #d163 (1928) First Line: Our thoughts go back to other days Languages: English

1865 - 1933 Author of "Dreams of Home" in Cornelius' Gospel Songs Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)