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In Answer to Mother's Prayer

O where is the boy I love tonight?

Author: F. A. Clark
Tune: [O, where is the boy I love tonight?]
Published in 1 hymnal

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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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Text Information

First Line: O where is the boy I love tonight?
Title: In Answer to Mother's Prayer
Author: F. A. Clark
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Come home my boy, come home
Publication Date: 1906
Copyright: Public Domain
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Songs of the Pilgrim Way #48

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