I'm Getting Ready to Go

There's a land beyond the shores of time

Author: Brantley C. George (1950)
Tune: [There's a land beyond the shores of time]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Brantley C. George

Born: August 12, 1886, Georgia. Died: December 26, 1963. Buried: George Cemetery, Early County, Georgia. Brantley was a farmer and gospel song writer of the Primitive Baptist faith. His most well known is "Hide Me, Rock of Ages" (© 1946), recorded originally by The Stamps Quartet, then later by well known groups such as The Chuck Wagon Gang, The Statesmen, and the Gatlin Brothers. It has even been translated and sang in Navaho. The orginal composition was written on a brown paper bag with pencil. I have held it in my hands. Not being an educated man, he supposedly sold the rights to it for the measly sum of $25. Though "Hide Me Rock Of Ages" is the most well known, he also wrote "I'm Going Home Some Morning", "Sailing on Life's Res… Go to person page >

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First Line:	There's a land beyond the shores of time
Title:	I'm Getting Ready to Go
Author:	Brantley C. George (1950)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Yes, I'm going to that happy land
Copyright:	© 1950 by Stamps Quartet Music Co. in "Gleaming Gems"