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Author: Will H. Ruebush Appears in 1 hymnal Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Happy, happy, happy are the songs we sing Refrain First Line: Happy, happy, happy happier all the day

With His Standard O'er Us

Author: James Rowe Appears in 1 hymnal Hymnal Title: Marching to Zion First Line: Happy the song that we are singing Refrain First Line: With the standard of love ever o'er us Used With Tune: [Happy the song that we are singing]

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[Happy, happy, happy are the songs we sing]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Will H. Ruebush Hymnal Title: Crowning Day No. 5 Incipit: 55113 16662 47722 Used With Text: Happy All the Way

[Happy the song that we are singing]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: A. J. Showalter Hymnal Title: Marching to Zion Incipit: 56715 12175 67171 Used With Text: With His Standard O'er Us

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Happy All the Way

Author: W. H. R. Hymnal: Crowning Day No. 5 #70 (1902) Hymnal Title: Crowning Day No. 5 First Line: Happy, happy, happy are the songs we sing Refrain First Line: Happy, happy, happy happier all the day Lyrics: 1 Happy, happy, happy are the songs we sing, Walking in the footsteps of our Saviour King, Marching with the ransomed in the King’s highway; Happy, happy, happy, happier ev’ry day. Refrain: Happy, happy, happy happier all the day, Happy, happy, happy, walking the King’s highway; Once the way was dreary, now the sweet sunbeams play, Happy, happy, happy happier all the day. 2 Happy, happy, happy, to our home above, Tho’ we’re often tempted, we will never rove; Kept from ev’ry danger by our faithful Guide, Happy, happy, happy, happier side by side. [Refrain] 3 Happy, happy, happy, oh, what joy to go! On the way to glory conq’ring ev’ry foe; Singing with the ransomed songs beyond compare, Happy, happy, happy, happier over there. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy, happy, happy are the songs we sing]

With His Standard O'er Us

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Marching to Zion #190 (1922) Hymnal Title: Marching to Zion First Line: Happy the song that we are singing Refrain First Line: With the standard of love ever o'er us Languages: English Tune Title: [Happy the song that we are singing]

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W. H. Ruebush

1873 - 1956 Person Name: Will H. Ruebush Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Happy All the Way" William Howe Ruebush (Will H. Ruebush) 1873-1956 Born: June 4, 1873, Singers Glen, Virginia. Died: October 6, 1956, Elkton, Virginia. A vocal music teacher early in his career, Ruebush directed an army band in France in World War I. After the war, he led many civilian orchestras and bands, and taught at several schools, including the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Dayton, Virginia. He composed many marches, including The Stonewall Brigade March, Shenandoah, and the Alma Mater Song for Tulane University. Ruebush spent most of his life in Dayton, Virginia, where he became president of the Ruebush-Kieffer Publishing Company. Lyrics-- Cross Goes on Before, The He Rolls the Stone Away I Am Happy Scatter Sunshine Music-- --www.hymntime.com/tch

James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Hymnal Title: Marching to Zion Author of "With His Standard O'er Us" in Marching to Zion 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)

A. J. Showalter

1858 - 1924 Hymnal Title: Marching to Zion Composer of "[Happy the song that we are singing]" in Marching to Zion Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did. John Perry