When My Life With the Tide Goes Out

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I have a pilot to guide my bark

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [I have a Pilot to guide my bark]
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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I have a pilot to guide my bark
Title:	When My Life With the Tide Goes Out
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When my life with the tide goes out