I Am Going to Jesus

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Though afar in the desert I've wandered

Author: Katharyn Bacon
Tune: [Though afar in the desert I've wandered]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Katharyn Bacon

Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. 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 >

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First Line:	Though afar in the desert I've wandered
Title:	I Am Going to Jesus
Author:	Katharyn Bacon
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I am going to Jesus
Publication Date:	1919
Copyright:	Public Domain