Swing Wide the Gates

Author: Eugene Wright

Eugene H. Wright, of Jasper, Alabama, taught singing schools and served as a staff writer for the Stamps Baxter company. Despite a life cut short by illness, he contributed a large number of lyrics and musical settings to the gospel genre. --Mrs. J.R. Baxter & Videt Polk, Gospel Song Writers Biography (Dallas: Stamps-Baxter, 1971), pp. 302-303. Go to person page >

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First Line: I am just apassing through this old world of care
Title: Swing Wide the Gates
Author: Eugene Wright (1944)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Swing wide the pearly portals
Copyright: © 1944 by Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Co. in "Zion's Call"
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Glory Waves #138

Zion's Call #25

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