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Keep Your Record Clean

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The world's a field of battle Refrain First Line: O keep your record clean Used With Tune: [The world's a field of battle]
Keep Your Record Clean

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[The world's a field of battle]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 51327 15171 23443 Used With Text: Keep Your Record Clean
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Keep Your Record Clean

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Hymnal: Happy Greetings #22 (1888) First Line: The world's a field of battle Refrain First Line: O keep your record clean Languages: English Tune Title: [The world's a field of battle]
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Keep Your Record Clean

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Hymnal: Temperance Rallying Songs #34 (1888) First Line: The world's a field of battle Refrain First Line: O keep your record clean Languages: English Tune Title: [The world's a field of battle]
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Keep Your Record Clean

Author: Mrs. A. L. Davison Hymnal: Gleanings of Sacred Song #227 (1892) First Line: The world's a field of battle Refrain First Line: O keep your record clean Languages: English Tune Title: [The world's a field of battle]
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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[The world's a field of battle]" in Gleanings of Sacred Song Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry
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Mrs. A. L. Davison

1851 - 1887 Author of "Keep Your Record Clean" in Gleanings of Sacred Song Fannie Estelle Davison Born: 1851, Cuy­a­ho­ga Falls, Ohio. Died: March 10, 1887, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. Buried: Carth­age, Mis­sou­ri. Fannie’s fa­ther was killed when she was 10 years old; af­ter her mo­ther’s re­mar­ri­age to ho­tel­i­er Hen­ry War­ner, the fam­i­ly moved to Carth­age, Mis­sou­ri. Fan­nie mar­ried court re­port­er Asa Lee Da­vis­on and they moved to Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, then Ma­di­son, Wis­con­sin. Sev­er­al of her songs ap­peared in pub­li­ca­tions from the Fill­more Bro­thers of Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, in­clud­ing Songs of Gra­ti­tude (1877), Joy and Glad­ness (1880) and The Voice of Joy (1882). Lyrics-- Last Words, The Purer in Heart, O God © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)
Mrs. A. L. Davison
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