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I Want to Be Ready to Go

Author: Herbert Buffum Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: I want to be ready when Jesus comes back

[I want to be ready when Jesus comes back]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 51113 21216 13565 Used With Text: I Want to be Ready to Go

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Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Soul Inspiring Songs #77 (1929) First Line: I want to be ready when Jesus comes back Lyrics: 1 I want to be ready when Jesus comes back, The moment tho’ I may not know, I want to have oil in my vessel that day, I want to be ready to go. Refrain: I want to be ready to go, I want to be ready to go, The day of His coming, tho’ I may not know, I want to be ready to go. 2 I want to be ready to join the glad throng, With robes washed in Calvary’s flow, When Jesus shall come back to gather His saints, I want to be ready to go. [Refrain] 3 I know He’ll not wait on me when He returns, No favors He then will bestow, Excepting all those who were watching for Him, I want to be ready to go. [Refrain] 4 I’ve loved ones who’ve crossed over death’s mystic tide, But they will arise then I know, When Jesus comes back we will stand by His side, I want to be ready to go. [Refrain] 5 Lord, help me to keep my lamp trimmed, burning bright In this world of sin and of woe, So when Thou dost come, if at morn, noon, or night, You’ll find me all ready to go. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I want to be ready when Jesus comes back]

I Want to Be Ready to Go

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Songs of Perennial Glory #152 (1915) First Line: I want to be ready when Jesus comes back Languages: English Tune Title: [I want to be ready when Jesus comes back]

I want to be ready when Jesus comes back

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Songs of Old-Time Power #d64 (1923) Languages: English

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Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Author of "I Want to be Ready to Go" in Soul Inspiring Songs 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)

R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Composer of "[I want to be ready when Jesus comes back]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org