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[Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land?]

Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 56534 45317 65712 Used With Text: Swing Song.

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Refrain First Line: Off we go - to and fro Topics: Children's Songs Used With Tune: [Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land] (Ackley)

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Swing Song

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: Great Revival Hymns No. 2 #166 (1913) First Line: Who wants to travel to tree top land Refrain First Line: Off we go, to and fro Lyrics: 1 Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Who wants to ride with a jolly band? Who likes to rise like a bird on the wing? Come and we’ll go in the swing! Refrain: Off we go—to and fro, Swinging, swinging, swinging; O what fun—every one, Singing, singing, singing; Merry lay—laughter gay, Ringing, ringing, ringing; Light and free as the birds are we! O, the joy of swinging! 2 Who wants to see where the Robin lives? Who wants the pleasure that flying gives? Who loves to hear what the soft breezes sing! Come then with us in the swing! [Refrain] 3 Who wants to peep into Cloudland bright? Who want to follow the sunbeams’ light? Come then, the fare is the song that we bring, Come take a trip in the swing! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Who wants to travel to tree top land]

Swing Song

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #168 (1922) First Line: Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Refrain First Line: Off we go--to and fro Lyrics: 1 Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Who wants to ride with a jolly band? Who likes to rise like a bird on the wing? Come and we’ll go in the swing! Refrain: Off we go—to and fro, Swinging, swinging, swinging; O what fun—every one, Singing, singing, singing; Merry lay—laughter gay, Ringing, ringing, ringing; Light and free as the birds are we! O, the joy of swinging! 2 Who wants to see where the Robin lives? Who wants the pleasure that flying gives? Who loves to hear what the soft breezes sing! Come then with us in the swing! [Refrain] 3 Who wants to peep into Cloudland bright? Who want to follow the sunbeams’ light? Come then, the fare is the song that we bring, Come take a trip in the swing! [Refrain] Tune Title: [Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land]

Swing Song.

Author: Edith Sanford Tillotson Hymnal: Victory Songs #175 (1920) First Line: Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Refrain First Line: Off we go--to and fro Lyrics: 1 Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land? Who wants to ride with a jolly band? Who likes to rise like a bird on the wing? Come and we’ll go in the swing! Chorus: Off we go— to and fro, Swinging, swinging, swinging; O what fun every one, Singing, singing, singing; Merry lay—laughter gay, Ringing, ringing, ringing; Light and free as the birds are we! O, the joy of swinging! 2 Who wants to see where the Robin lives? Who wants the pleasure that flying gives? Who loves to hear what the soft breezes sing! Come then with us in the swing! [Chorus] 3 Who wants to peep into Cloudland bright? Who want to follow the sunbeams’ light? Come then, the fare is the song that we bring, Come take a trip in the swing! [Chorus] Topics: Children's Songs Languages: English Tune Title: [Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land?]

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B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Who wants to travel to Tree Top Land] (Ackley)" in Golden Bells Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

Edith Sanford Tillotson

1876 - 1968 Author of "Swing Song." in Victory Songs Edith Sanford Tillotson was born and lived her entire life in Corona, New York. She wrote hymns for children as well as poems and librettos. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)