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The Sailor Boy's Farewell

Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Mother, Mother, I must leave thee, Far o'er ocean's billow
The Sailor Boy's Farewell

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The Sailor Boy's Farewell

Hymnal: Melodies for the Temperance Ship. 5th thousand #d52 (1854) First Line: Mother, Mother, I must leave thee, Far o'er ocean's billow Languages: English
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The Sailor Boy's Farewell

Hymnal: Melodies for the Temperance Band #d74 (1856) First Line: Mother, Mother, I must leave thee, Far o'er ocean's billow Languages: English
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Mother, mother, I must leave thee

Author: J. H. H. Hymnal: Ocean Melodies, and Seamen's Companion #50 (1849)
Mother, mother, I must leave thee

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J. H. Hanaford

b. 1819 Person Name: J. H. H. Author of "Mother, mother, I must leave thee" in Ocean Melodies, and Seamen's Companion Hanaford, J. H., M.D., born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, Jan. 27, 1819, and educated for the medical profession. He arranged the first edition of Phineas Stowe's Ocean Melodies, 1848, and for it he composed 19 hymns. Some of these are signed "J. H. H.," and others "J. H. Hanaford." One on Setting Sail, "Great God, at Thy command," is specially good for its purpose. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. H. Hanaford
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