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Your Pilot's at the wheel

Author: Emma Pitt Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: O, sailor, on life's troubled sea Refrain First Line: Then never fear the billow's roar Used With Tune: [O, sailor, on life's troubled sea]

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[O, sailor, on life's troubled sea]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. D. Keck Incipit: 55566 51332 24322 Used With Text: Your Pilot's at the wheel
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[O sailor, on life’s troubled sea]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. J. Jelley Incipit: 54333 54346 55225 Used With Text: Your Pilot's at the Wheel
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[O sailor! on life's troubled sea]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Incipit: 51232 17655 65432 Used With Text: Your Pilot's at the Wheel

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Your Pilot's at the Wheel

Hymnal: Pearls of Praise #78 (1893) First Line: O sailor, on life’s troubled sea Refrain First Line: Then never fear the billows’ roar Lyrics: 1 O sailor, on life’s troubled sea, Why should you fear the storm? The shore’s in view where you will be Safe from all dread alarm. Refrain: Then never fear the billows’ roar, Nor danger ever feel; You’ll safely reach the golden shore, Your pilot’s at the wheel. 2 O sailor, trust your all to him, Nor heed the robbing wave; Look up, tho’ skies be dark and dim, And trust the Lord to save. [Refrain] 3 O sailor, see your shining light, The port is drawing near; And loved ones robed in purest white Await your coming there. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 8:24 Tune Title: [O sailor, on life’s troubled sea]
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Your Pilot's at the Wheel

Author: Emma Pitt Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.5 #134 (1896) First Line: O sailor! on life's troubled sea Refrain First Line: Then never fear the billows' roar Lyrics: 1 O sailor! on life’s troubled sea, Why should you fear the storm? The shore’s in view where you will be Safe from all dread alarm. Refrain: Then never fear the billows’ roar, Nor danger ever feel, You’ll safely reach the golden shore, Your Pilot’s at the wheel. Your Pilot’s at the wheel, Your Pilot’s at the wheel, You’ll safely reach the golden shore, Your Pilot’s at the wheel. 2 O sailor! trust your all to Him, Nor heed the rolling wave; Look up, tho’ skies be dark and dim, And trust the Lord to save. [Refrain] 3 O sailor! see your shining light, The port is drawing near, And loved ones robed in purest white Await your coming there. [Refrain] Tune Title: [O sailor! on life's troubled sea]
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Your Pilot's at the wheel

Author: Emma Pitt Hymnal: Band Music #33 (1886) First Line: O, sailor, on life's troubled sea Refrain First Line: Then never fear the billow's roar Languages: English Tune Title: [O, sailor, on life's troubled sea]

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J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Composer of "[O sailor! on life's troubled sea]" in Triumphant Songs No.5 John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1888) Gems of Gos­pel Song Golden Sun­beams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Bea­con Light The Sing­ing School Ban­ner The An­them Of­fer­ing The Amer­i­can An­them Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swell­ing Flood Cancún Come to Je­sus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Pray­er Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way Jubilate! My An­chor Is Hold­ing Nothing Be­tween Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers Sabbath Bell San Fran­cis­co We’ll Ne­ver Say Good­bye Where Will You Spend Eter­ni­ty? --www.hymntime.com/tch

Emma Pitt

b. 1846 Author of "Your Pilot's at the Wheel" in Triumphant Songs No.5 Born: 1846, Maryland. Pitt was living in Bal­ti­more, Mar­y­land, by 1880, and through at least 1910. She may have died be­fore 1920, as the daugh­ter with whom she was living in 1910 was on her own and still sin­gle in 1920. --www.hymntime.com

J. J. Jelley

Composer of "[O sailor, on life’s troubled sea]" in Pearls of Praise
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