They Cheer Us By the Way

The Lord will send his angels down

Author: S. J. Oslin
Tune: [The Lord will send His angels down]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 The Lord will send His angels down,
To cheer us by the way;
And when we sleep they camp around,
They cheer us by the way.

Refrain:
They cheer us by the way,
They cheer us by the way;
The Lord will send His angels down,
To cheer us by the way.

2 Tho’ friends have gone to worlds unknown,
They cheer us by the way;
They bid us come and follow on,
They cheer us by the way. [Refrain]

3 The Lord doth give their spirits charge,
They cheer us by the way;
And when we sleep they watch and guard,
They cheer us by the way. [Refrain]

4 The angel spirit of our friends,
They cheer us by the way;
And when in trouble they defend,
They cheer us by the way. [Refrain]

Source: Crowning Day No. 4 #204

Author: S. J. Oslin

Stephen Jesse Oslin (1858-1928) was "a teacher, preacher, poet, musician, composer, author and publisher" from Walker County, Alabama. Beginning his teaching career in Arkansas, he studied with W. D. C. Botefuhr in Fort Smith during the 1880s and briefly published a music journal, The Tempo, from that city. Most of his early career, however, was spent in the Indian Territory (today eastern Oklahoma), where he served as the western correspondent for the Ruebush-Kieffer Musical Million. In 1905 Oslin incorporated the Eureka Publishing Company, in Stigler, I.T., where he published songbooks, a paper called The Eureka Messenger, music theory texts, and held sessions of the Eureka Music Normal. His singing classes and music normals were taugh… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The Lord will send his angels down
Title: They Cheer Us By the Way
Author: S. J. Oslin
Language: English
Refrain First Line: They cheer us by the way
Copyright: Public Domain

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Crowning Day No. 4 #204

Fountain of Praise #d76

Victory of Song #d59

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