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Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 We are little gleaners, Little we can do; Yet, in humble corners, We can labor too. Chorus: We are little gleaners, Singing on our way; We are little gleaners, Toiling all the day. 2 We are little gleaners, Small the sheaves we bind; Yet we bear the treasures Others leave behind. [Chorus] 3 We are little gleaners, Daily we shall see, Little duties left us, Fit for you and me. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [We are little gleaners]

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[We are little gleaners, little we can do]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 33221 51122 33322 Used With Text: We Are Little Gleaners

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We Are Little Gleaners

Hymnal: Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement #481 (1902) First Line: We are little gleaners, little we can do Languages: English Tune Title: [We are little gleaners, little we can do]

We Are Little Gleaners

Hymnal: Primary School Carols #67 (1914) First Line: We are little gleaners, Little we can do Languages: English Tune Title: [We are little gleaners, Little we can do]

We are Little Gleaners

Hymnal: Little Branches No. 2 #7 (1896) Lyrics: 1 We are little gleaners, Little we can do; Yet, in humble corners, We can labor too. Chorus: We are little gleaners, Singing on our way; We are little gleaners, Toiling all the day. 2 We are little gleaners, Small the sheaves we bind; Yet we bear the treasures Others leave behind. [Chorus] 3 We are little gleaners, Daily we shall see, Little duties left us, Fit for you and me. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [We are little gleaners]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[We are little gleaners, little we can do]" in Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry