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Smile and Sing

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When the heart is heavy and the days are long Refrain First Line: Smile and sing, some happy, happy song

[When the heart is heavy and the days are long]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Grant Colfax Tullar Incipit: 32172 17654 45432 Used With Text: Smile and Sing

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Author: Grant C. Tullar Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6162 First Line: When the heart is heavy and the days are long Refrain First Line: Smile and sing, some happy, happy song Lyrics: 1. When the heart is heavy and the days are long, Let each passing moment echo with a song. Fill some life with courage, comfort now the sad— Many lives are lonely, you can make them glad. Refrain Smile and sing, some happy, happy song, Days of sadness will not tarry long; Smile and sing, ’twill drive the clouds away— Smile and sing thro’ every passing day. 2. Someone needs the comfort that a song can bring, If thy heart is happy let it gaily sing. Someone’s pathway brighten, lift some load of care— Seek some heart to brighten, and its burden share. [Refrain] 3. Many are in sorrow and the clouds hang low, You can cheer and comfort as you onward go. Win some soul for Jesus, from the path of shame Giving all the glory to His precious name. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [When the heart is heavy and the days are long]

Smile and Sing

Author: G. C. T. Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #3 (1903) First Line: When the heart is heavy and the days are long Refrain First Line: Smile and sing, some happy, happy song Topics: Joy Languages: English Tune Title: [When the heart is heavy and the days are long]

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Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Person Name: Grant C. Tullar Author of "Smile and Sing" in The Cyber Hymnal Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.