He'll Hold My Hand

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Though dark the night, and long may be, The eye of God, is watching me

Author: Herbert Buffum (1933); Author: James D. Vaughan (1933)
Tune: [Though dark the night, and long may be]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. 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 >

Author: James D. Vaughan

Vaughan, James D(avid); b. Dec. 14, 1864, between Lawrence Co. and Giles Co., TN; d. Feb. 9, 1941, Lawrenceburg, TN; music publisher, composer and compiler of gospel songs in shape notation Go to person page >

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First Line:	Though dark the night, and long may be, The eye of God, is watching me
Title:	He'll Hold My Hand
Author:	Herbert Buffum (1933)
Author:	James D. Vaughan (1933)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	He'll hold my hand, He'll hold my hand
Publication Date:	1933
Copyright:	©1933, by James D. Walbert