Help Me Sing On

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Help me sing on when my heart breaks in sadness

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Help me sing on when my heart breaks in sadness]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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 >

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First Line:	Help me sing on when my heart breaks in sadness
Title:	Help Me Sing On
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Help me sing on, Lord, help me sing on
Publication Date:	1951
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1951.