The Old Village Church On the Hill

Top Author Text Info Tune Timeline Instances

How sweet the memory of days that used to be

Author: Albert E. Brumley (1936)
Tune: [How sweet the memory of days that used to be]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Albert E. Brumley

Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri. Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	How sweet the memory of days that used to be
Title:	The Old Village Church On the Hill
Author:	Albert E. Brumley (1936)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I still can hear the children sing as they sang in the church on the hill
Publication Date:	1936
Copyright:	© 1936, by Hartford Music Co., in "Lights of Life"