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It's a Wonderful Thing

There's a song in my soul, for I'm happy and whole

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [There's a song in my soul, for I'm happy and whole]
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: There's a song in my soul, for I'm happy and whole
Title: It's a Wonderful Thing
Author: James Rowe
Refrain First Line: It's a wonderful thing to be saved
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances (1 - 4 of 4)

Carols of Peace for Christian Work and Worship #d127

Crown Him King #d209

Gospel Tidings, a Book of Select Gospel Songs #d126

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Millennial Revival #104

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