Don't forget that promise to mother

As you left the homestead in the happy long ago

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [As you left the homestead in the happy long ago]
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: James Rowe

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) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: As you left the homestead in the happy long ago
Title: Don't forget that promise to mother
Author: James Rowe
Refrain First Line: Don't forget that promise that you made
Copyright: Public Domain

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Celestial Chimes #d6

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Cornelius' Gospel Songs #72

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Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 #204

Gospel Rays #d21

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Songs of the Cross #15

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