The City of Rest

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I am going some day, to a home far away

Author: F. A. Clark
Tune: [I am going some day]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: F. A. Clark

F. A. Clark (Francis A.) was a respected Black musician and composer from Philadelphia. Dianne Shapiro, from "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music," by Horace Clarence Boyer, in The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 103-132 (retrieved online from JSTOR, 8/27/2020) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I am going some day, to a home far away
Title:	The City of Rest
Author:	F. A. Clark
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, sweet home of the blest
Publication Date:	1906
Copyright:	Public Domain