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Meter: 11.11.11.11 D Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33336 51712 34444 Used With Text: Looking On The Bright Side

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Looking On the Bright Side

Author: Georgia Tillman Snead Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him Refrain First Line: Looking on the bright side all along the way Topics: Children; Hope; Intermediate Used With Tune: [Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him]

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Looking On the Bright Side

Author: Georgia Tillman Snead Hymnal: Songs of Help #14 (1917) First Line: Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him Refrain First Line: Looking on the bright side all along the way Lyrics: 1 Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him; Leaning on the Saviour when the light is dim; Tho’ the way be thorny, and the mountain steep, Looking on the bright side, God the soul will keep. Refrain: Looking on the bright side, all along the way, Soon we’ll see the shadows merging into day; Looking on the bright side, see all bane and blight, Care and pain and sorrow passing out of sight. 2 Looking on the bright side ev’ry passing day, We can cheer a trav’ler on the narrow way; We can tell the story, tell of Him, our Guide, Who was for a world of sinners crucified. [Refrain] 3 Looking on the bright side, tho’ the shadows fall, God, within the shadow watches over all; He is near His children, shields from ev’ry foe, Gives them peace and comfort in this world below. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him]

Looking On The Bright Side

Author: Georgie T. Snead Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12834 Meter: 11.11.11.11 D First Line: Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him Lyrics: 1 Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him; Leaning on the Savior when the light is dim; Tho’ the way be thorny and the mountain steep, Looking on the bright side, God the soul will keep. Refrain: Looking on the bright side all along the way, Soon we’ll see the shadows merging into day; Looking on the bright side, see all bane and blight, Care and pain and sorrow, passing out of sight. 2 Looking on the bright side, every passing day, We can cheer a traveler on the narrow way; We can tell the story, tell of Him our guide, Who was for a world of sinners crucified. [Refrain] 3 Looking on the bright side, tho’ the shadows fall, God, within the shadow watcheth over all; He is near His children, shields from every foe, Gives them peace and comfort in this world below. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: CLUJ-NAPOCA

Looking On the Bright Side

Author: Georgia Tillman Snead Hymnal: Hymns of the Heart #10 (1914) First Line: Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him Refrain First Line: Looking on the bright side all along the way Languages: English Tune Title: [Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Looking on the bright side, trusting all to Him]" in Songs of Help Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Georgia T. Snead

Person Name: Georgia Tillman Snead Author of "Looking On the Bright Side" in Songs of Help Georgia Tillman Snead was born in Virginia. She wrote several volumes of prose and a book of poems. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)