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[When rough is my journey and heavy the load]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. McKinney Incipit: 53231 23412 33321 Used With Text: The Hills of Home

Author: B. B. McK. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When rough is my journey and heavy the load Refrain First Line: In the beautiful hills, the evergreen hills Used With Tune: [When rough is my journey and heavy the load]

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The Hills of Home

Author: B. B. McK. Hymnal: Precious Hymns #12 (1938) First Line: When rough is my journey and heavy the load Refrain First Line: In the beautiful hills, the evergreen hills Languages: English Tune Title: [When rough is my journey and heavy the load]

The Hills of Home

Author: B. B. McK. Hymnal: Leading Hymns #167 (1936) First Line: When rough is my journey and heavy the load Refrain First Line: In the beautiful hills, the evergreen hills Languages: English Tune Title: [When rough is my journey and heavy the load]

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B. B. McKinney

1886 - 1952 Person Name: B. B. McK. Author of "The Hills of Home" in Leading Hymns Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)