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["God is my helper," this I know]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Grace Wilbur Conant Tune Sources: Song and Play for Children by Danielson and Conant Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 55432 11233 66545 Used With Text: "God Is My Helper"

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"God Is My Helper"

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: "God is my helper," this I know Lyrics: 1 "God is my helper," this I know, Whatever I do and wherever I go. 2 When I wake early, this is my song: "God is my helper the whole day long." Topics: God Used With Tune: ["God is my helper," this I know] Text Sources: Song and Play for Children by Danielson and Conant

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"God Is My Helper"

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Let Youth Praise Him #8 (1964) First Line: "God is my helper," this I know Lyrics: 1 "God is my helper," this I know, Whatever I do and wherever I go. 2 When I wake early, this is my song: "God is my helper the whole day long." Topics: God Languages: English Tune Title: ["God is my helper," this I know]
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God Is My Helper

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: Children's Hymnal #100 (1957) First Line: "God is my helper," this I know Lyrics: 1 "God is my helper," this I know, "Whatever I do and wherever I go. 2 When I wake early, this is my sohg: "God is my helper the whole day long." Topics: Songs Suitable for Nursery; Songs Suitable for Kindergarten; Songs Suitable for Primary; God's Help; Morning Languages: English Tune Title: ["God is my helper," this I know]
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God Is My Helper

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner Hymnal: When the Little Child Wants to Sing #16 (1935) First Line: "God is my helper," this I know Languages: English Tune Title: ["God is my helper," this I know]

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Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "["God is my helper," this I know]" in Let Youth Praise Him Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1858, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: Ap­ril 7, 1948, Malden, Mass­a­chu­setts. Grace re­mained sin­gle all her life. Her mid­dle name was her mo­ther’s maid­en name. She served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Kin­der­gar­ten Review for at least six years, star­ting in 1908. Her works in­clude: Songs for Lit­tle Peo­ple, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­i­el­son (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Ben­ja­min S. Win­ches­ter (Pilg­rim Press, 1913) Religious Dan­gers of Mo­dern Ten­den­cies in So-Called Re­li­gious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Child­ren, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­iel­son (Pil­grim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal

Nancy Byrd Turner

1880 - 1971 Author of ""God Is My Helper"" in Let Youth Praise Him Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951. --Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.
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