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My Happy Home

Author: Aldine S. Kieffer

Full name Aldine Silliman Kiefer Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I have a home above the starry skies
Title: My Happy Home
Author: Aldine S. Kieffer
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O, my home, happy home
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

I have a home above, p. 556, i. We find that this hymn was written as early as 1852, and that it was included in the Plymouth Brethren's A Few Hymns and some Spiritual Songs selected 1856 for the Little Flock.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Children's Hosannas #d40

Harvest Bells No.3 #d37

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Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 #251

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Songs for All #61

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Sweet Harmonies #47

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