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Look On The Brighter Side

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Author: Eugene Wright

Eugene H. Wright, of Jasper, Alabama, taught singing schools and served as a staff writer for the Stamps Baxter company. Despite a life cut short by illness, he contributed a large number of lyrics and musical settings to the gospel genre. --Mrs. J.R. Baxter & Videt Polk, Gospel Song Writers Biography (Dallas: Stamps-Baxter, 1971), pp. 302-303. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: When clouds of doubt arise, spreading across the skies
Title: Look On The Brighter Side
Author: Eugene Wright (1939)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Look on the brighter side
Copyright: © 1939, by Stamps-Baxter Music Co. in "Joyful Songs." Renewed 1967.

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Best of Southern Gospel #300

Tuneful Tidings #104

Include 2 pre-1979 instances
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