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[When the billows rise and roll]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Virgil O. Stamps Incipit: 12314 65123 4321 Used With Text: Sweet harbor bells

Sweet harbor bells

Author: James Rowe Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: When the billows rise and roll Refrain First Line: Oh, hear them ring Used With Tune: [When the billows rise and roll]

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Hymnal: Favorite Radio Songs #99 (1937) First Line: When the billows rise and roll Refrain First Line: Oh, hear them ring Languages: English Tune Title: [When the billows rise and roll]

Sweet Harbor Bells

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Wonderful Peace #104 (1988) First Line: When the billows rise and roll Languages: English Tune Title: [When the billows rise and roll]

Sweet harbor bells

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: His Voice of Love #111 (1924) First Line: When the billows rise and roll Refrain First Line: Oh, hear them ring Languages: English Tune Title: [When the billows rise and roll]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "Sweet harbor bells" in His Voice of Love 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)