The Promise You Made Mother

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Remember, how, before you left your home

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Remember, how, before you left your home]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Remember, how, before you left your home
Title:	The Promise You Made Mother
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	You've never kept your promise to bravely do your best
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain