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Then hurrah for the flag

Author: Howitt Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: There are many flags in many lands

[There are many flags in many lands]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Incipit: 34532 16153 45171 Used With Text: There are Many Flags

OUR OWN RED, WHITE AND BLUE

Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 12354 65311 23525 Used With Text: There are many flags in many lands

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Author: Howitt; G. C. T. Hymnal: The Kingdom of Praise #53 (1920) First Line: There are many flags in many lands Refrain First Line: Then hurrah for the flag Lyrics: 1 There are many flags in many lands, There are flags of ev’ry hue, But there is no flag in any land, Like our own red, white and blue. Refrain: Then hurrah for the flag, Our country’s flag, Its stripes and its white stars too, For there is no flag in any land, Like our own red, white and blue. 2 I know where the pretty colors are, And I’m sure if I but knew Hot to get them here, I’d make a flag, Of our loved red, white and blue. [Refrain] 3 I would take a piece of ev’ning sky, With the red of rainbow bright, And would use it as it was on high, For my stars and field of blue. [Refrain] 4 When I’d want a piece of fleecy cloud, With the red of rainbow bright, And I’d put them length wise, side by side For my stripes of red and white. [Refrain] 5 We shall always love the stars and stripes, And to it we will be true, To this land of ours and dear old flag, With its red and white and blue. [Refrain] Tune Title: [There are many flags in many lands]

There are many flags in many lands

Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal and Service Book #206 (1929) Languages: English Tune Title: OUR OWN RED, WHITE AND BLUE

Then hurrah for the flag

Author: Howitt Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Hymns #d28 (1917) First Line: There are many flags in many lands Languages: English

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Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Person Name: G. C. T. Arranger of "There are Many Flags" in The Kingdom of Praise Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.

I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Arranger of "[There are many flags in many lands]" in The Kingdom of Praise Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton