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Display Title: The Song of Childhood Days First Line: How sweet the tho't of childhood days Tune Title: [How sweet the tho't of childhood days] Author: James Rowe Date: 1925
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The Song of Childhood Days
How sweet the thought of childhood days
Author: James RoweTune: [How sweet the thought of childhood days]
Published in 2 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.
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The Gospel Way #236a
Display Title: The Song of Childhood Days First Line: How sweet the tho't of childhood days Tune Title: [How sweet the tho't of childhood days] Author: James Rowe Date: 1923
The Gospel Way #236a
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