J. B. Coats

J. B. Coats
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Short Name: J. B. Coats
Full Name: Coats, J. B. (James Buchanan), 1901-1961
Birth Year: 1901
Death Year: 1961

J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961.

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Texts by J. B. Coats (179)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A beautiful, beautiful home, In heaven we all shall seeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
A feeling within you is leading you onwardJ. B. C. (Author)English2
A heartbeat felt, a spoken wordJ. B. C. (Author)English2
A mocking bird was singing as we stood beside a graveJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
A mother old and gray stood silently one dayJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Adown the narrow road, to heaven's blest abodeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
After your heart has been brokenJ. B. C. (Author)English2
All the way, every day, Happiness is mineJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Always humble, always humbleJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
As a lad I did not realize that I should prayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
As I sit here alone in the twilightJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
At evening, when twilight Has shaded the dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
At the bedside of my motherJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Back in childhood, I rememberJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Be saved, the warning comes todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Before I found salvation, Before I knew the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Beyond the firing line, I'll see my Friend divineJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Brother, today the way is bright, Jesus the King, the truth, the lightJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Christ the Lord is the lifeJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Could we only draw the curtainJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Darkness falls around me, hordes of evil hound meJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Dear friend, I've known you but a dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Deep in my heart I have a joyful songJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
Deep within my heart I love TheeJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Did you give him a lift? he's a brother manJ. B. Coats (Alterer)English2
Down deep in my soul a melody ringsR. J. B. Coats (Author)English4
Drifted have I as days have passed byJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Each day I feel a friendly handJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Each day we read that someone's missingJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Earthly life is only one short dayJ. B. C. (Author)English7
Every day as I travel onJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Every day you listen to God's holy WordJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Far in the depths and death nearingJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Father, like an orphaned child, I am tempted, oft beguiledJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Gentle rivers are flowing freeJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Gladly I am singing, cheerful is my odeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Glory, glory, Jesus needs meJ. B. C. (Author)English3
God knows our weakness, when death comes alongJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
God needs our souls for His kingdomJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
God's hand came stealing, His love revealingJ. B. C. (Author)English3
God's holy word in truth divineJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Great camp meeting in days of yoreJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Greater love can no man showJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Harmony from heaven haunts meJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Have you a burden, is your heart sadJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Have you ever seen the glory of the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Having been saved to work for the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Heaven has its stars, shining clearJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Holy be, holy be, holy be Thy nameJ. B. C. (Author)English5
Hours are spent in dreaming of the pastJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I am dreaming tonight of the home folksJ. B. C. (Author)English3
I am longing for heaven and the wonderful timeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
I am on the rainbow trailJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Saved for a WitnessJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I have a home in the glory land, living waters ever flowJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I have a secret I cannot tellJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I have dreamed a million times of a home in heaven's climeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
I know the truth it is food for the soulJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I love to be alone with Jesus, To tell Him every joy and careJ. B. C. (Author (Chorus))English4
I often wondered, when I was just a ladJames B. Coats (Author)English3
I remember long ago when just a boyJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
I was once a sinner, just a weary sinnerJ. B. C. (Author)English5
I was standing by the bedside of a neighbor old and grayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I wonder if a soul by my action can tellJ. B. Coats (Author)2
I would not walk without JesusJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
I would tell to you in song and storyJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
If naught of love this world did knowJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
If sometime you should hear across the nightJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
If there is a brother in your church or townJ. B. C. (Author)English3
If you're needing a friend in this troublesome landJ. B. C. (Author)English3
I'm a debtor, I know, every day I liveJ. B. C. (Author)English5
I'm leaving for home at the end of the dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
I'm looking for tomorrowJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I'm treading the highway to glory todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
In a place called heaven, far beyond the skyJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
In a valley so green, mother's sleeping todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
In all my sin, there was not one who caredJ. B. C. (Author)English4
In lands afar, across the deepJ. B. C. (Author)English3
In the harvest field today is waving golden grainJ. B. C. (Author)English3
In the rattle of the battle, fighting for my LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I've a message sinner friend, I would have you hear todayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I've a story to tell, 'tis the story of JesusJ. B. C. (Author)English5
I've had enough crying, I've had enough sighingJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Just a curtain between all the good and the badJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Kind words, like flowers ever bloomingJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Let me tell you of a mansionJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Let the Christian be praying for the one who is strayingJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Life is filled with great temptations all along the wayJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Life is passing down here as we live day by dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Life is the station sending messages nowJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Living below in this old sinful worldJ. B. C. (Author)English109
Lonely days filled with careJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Lord, I feel Thy presence, As the moments flyJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Loudly the call to the colorsJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Man was made the image of his MakerJ. B. C. (Author)English5
Many are living a life here belowJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Many sermons have I heard proclaiming God's own WordJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Many strange things today we can hear on the wayJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Many years ago I found the LordJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Many years I've wasted, squandered, on the road of sinJ. B. Coats (Author)English6
Master, where shall I work todayJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Mother, if your son is sleeping 'neath the blueJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Much is said about the people that you meet from day to dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
My body is weak, overtaken by the fallJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
My prayer today to the Master aboveJ. B. C. (Author)English3
O wonderful, so wonderful is ChristJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Oft we are made to weepJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Old Moses lay adreaming, the hour was deep in the midnightJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
On the road to glory, through this pilgrim landJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Once I was a sinner, in darkness all aloneJ. B. C. (Author)English3
One day a mother came to the prisonJ. B. C. (Author)English3
One day I heard a still, small voice to sayJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
One day my soul was saved, saved from the fallJ. B. Coats (Author)English6
One ship driving east and another westJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Over the mountain and down through the valeJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Pilgrim, pilgrim where goeth thou?J. B. Coats (Author)English2
Preaching is daily leading souls arightJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Raise a mighty song for a Son is bornJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Sing of a land where freedom reignsJ. B. C. (Author)English6
Sinner, how about your soul?J. B. Coats (Author)English4
Sinner, listen, Holy Spirit callsJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Slowly the evening sun was sinkingJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Some people like a gilded cageJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Sometime, when I am deep in sinJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Sometimes I grieve in sorrow, sometimes I weep aloudJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Sometimes I think of thoseJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Sometimes up and sometimes downJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Somewhere my dreams will all come trueJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Soul far away, think of the woeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
The Bible tells in Luke nineteenJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
The ninety and nine lay safe in care divineJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
The prodigal son found it while he was kneelingJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
The will of God must work within the hearts of living menJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
There is a light ever shiningJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
There is a place of gladness beyond this vale of tearsJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
There is a still, small voiceJ. B. Coats (Author)2
There is a story covered with gloryJ. B. C. (Author)English2
There's a beautiful home in heavenJ. B. Coats (Author)2
There's a lovely land beyond the silent riverJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
There's a story in the Bible, you have heard it oft beforeJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Think of stepping on a shore, and finding it is heavenJ. B. C. (Arranger)English2
This book unfolds Jehovah's mindJ. B. Coats (Author)3
This life is hard to understand, The way is narrow and steepJ. B. C. (Author)English4
This life is like a day of timeJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Though she is lying full six feetJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Through a world of sorrow we are passingJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Traveling on, singing a songJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Trouble just can't pass you byJ. B. C. (Author)English2
'Twas late one evening, the sun was lowJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Wake up, O sinner, God needs a winnerJ. B. Coats (Author)English10
Water for meJ. B. Coats (Author)2
We are in the army of the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
We never know at the dawn of dayJ. B. C. (Author)English7
We will go in the strength of the LordJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Weary here, but I must travel some moreJ. B. C. (Author (Chorus))English3
What a wonderful feeling, just to know He is mineJ. B. C. (Suggested by)English1
When clouds of sin like a mad river rollJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
When I come to cross the riverJ. B. Coats (Author)3
When I heard the invitationJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
When I was a little lad, the best friend I ever hadJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
When I was but a child, not many years agoJ. B. C. (Author)English4
When my toiling is over, at setting sunJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
When the cares of life shall have passed awayJ. B. C. (Author)English3
When the fervent heat of judgment comes to cover all the worldJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
When the Holy Spirit came into my soulJ. B. C. (Author)English2
When the loud trumpet sound we hear, waking the dead both far and nearJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound for me one dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
When the trumpet sounds so loud, what a timeJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
When you are lonely, clouds hide the blueJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
Where there is love, the love of GodJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Wherever I roam, in joy or sorrowJ. B. C. (Author)English4
While traveling through a weary landJ. B. C. (Author)English3
While we're praying, while we're pleadingJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
Who conquers the world beneath the sunJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Why must it be, dear Lord, I now ask?J. B. C. (Author)English2
With every rising of the sunJ. B. Coats (Arranger)English1
Wonderful the love of Jesus, from all fear the Spirit frees usJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Workers on a building rare, Building for eternityJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
You have read the Holy Bible and you know what should be doneJ. B. C. (Author)English3
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