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Are You Ready to Start for Home

Author: Birdie Bell Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Are you ready to start for home, brother?

[Are you ready to start for home, brother?]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. Beall Incipit: 51332 34355 55611 Used With Text: Are You Ready to Start for Home

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Are You Ready to Start for Home

Author: Birdie Bell Hymnal: Bright Beautiful Bells #61 (1900) First Line: Are you ready to start for home, brother? Refrain First Line: Are you ready to start for home, brother? Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you ready to start for home, brother?]

Are you ready to start for home, brother

Author: R. F. R. Bell Hymnal: Waves of Salvation, Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #d9 (1922)

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Birdie Bell

Author of "Are You Ready to Start for Home" C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

B. B. Beall

1874 - 1945 Composer of "[Are you ready to start for home, brother?]" in Bright Beautiful Bells Benjamin Burke (B. B.) Beall, was born on May 25, 1874, Dallas, Georgia. Benjamin graduated in music and elocution from the Texas Musical Institute. He ran the B. B. Beall publishing company in Douglasville, Georgia. He died on October 7, 1945, in Douglasville, Georgia. Some of his publications: Bright Beautiful Bells (Birmingham, Alabama: B. B. Beal & Company, 1900) Gems for the Sunday Schools (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1902) Lasting Songs, B. B. Beall et al (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1910) NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.hymntime.com/tch/