Do They Pray for Me at Home?

Do they pray for me at home

Author: J. H. Tenney
Tune: [Do they pray for me at home]
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Do they pray for me at home?
Do they ever pray for me,
When I ride the dark sea foam,
When I cross the stormy sea?
Oh, how oft in foreign lands,
As I see the bended knee,
Comes the thought at twilight hour,
Do they ever pray for me?

Refrain:
Do they ever, do they ever,
Do they ever pray for me at home?
Do they ever, do they ever,
Do they ever pray for me at home?

2 Do they pray for me at home,
When the summer birds appear?
Do they pray for me the while,
That my path may be less drear?
At the home of early youth,
Do they place the vacant chair,
Where my heart so oft returns,
To the lov’d ones gather’d there? [Refrain]

3 Do they pray for me at home,
When the winds of winter blow?
Do they pray for me with love,
As they watch the winter’s snow?
In the season’s chilly cold,
Are their hearts for me still warm?
As I cherish’d as of old,
Through the beating of the storm? [Refrain]

Source: The Crowning Day : For use in Sunday Schools and Gospel Meetings #12

Author: J. H. Tenney

John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Do they pray for me at home
Title: Do They Pray for Me at Home?
Author: J. H. Tenney
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Do they ever, do they ever
Copyright: Public Domain

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Temperance Jewels #48

The New Christian Harp. 10th ed. #d55

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The Shining Light #44

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Bible School Hymns and Sacred Songs for Sunday Schools and Other Religious Services #32b

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The Crowning Day #12

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