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Singing With the Angels

Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 16 hymnals First Line: I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home Lyrics: 1 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better home Of a better home than this; Of a home where sorrows never come, Where all is perfect bliss. Refrain: Singing with the angels, There, there, over, over there; Singing with the angels, In that sweet home so fair. 2 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better life, Of a better life than this; Where there is no conflict and no strife, Where all is perfect peace. [Refrain] 3 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better land, Of a better land than this; Where the ransom’d tread the golden strand, Where joy shall never cease. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home]

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[I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home]

Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 34551 33216 66551 Used With Text: Sweet Dreams
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[I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. S. Kieffer Incipit: 55513 21161 66513 Used With Text: Singing With the Angels

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Singing With the Angels

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Glory Bells #82 (1896) First Line: I have dreamed sweet dreams of a better home Languages: English Tune Title: [I have dreamed sweet dreams of a better home]
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Singing With the Angels

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Crowning Day #19 (1894) First Line: I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home Lyrics: 1 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better home Of a better home than this; Of a home where sorrows never come, Where all is perfect bliss. Refrain: Singing with the angels, There, there, over, over there; Singing with the angels, In that sweet home so fair. 2 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better life, Of a better life than this; Where there is no conflict and no strife, Where all is perfect peace. [Refrain] 3 I have dream’d sweet dreams of a better land, Of a better land than this; Where the ransom’d tread the golden strand, Where joy shall never cease. [Refrain] Tune Title: [I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home]
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Sweet Dreams

Hymnal: The Beacon Light #57 (1881) First Line: I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home Refrain First Line: Happy home, sweet home Languages: English Tune Title: [I have dream'd sweet dreams of a better home]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Author of "Singing With the Angels" in The Crowning Day Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Aldine S. Kieffer

1840 - 1904 Person Name: A. S. Kieffer Author (Chorus) of "Singing with the Angels" in The Gospel in Song Full name Aldine Silliman Kiefer
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