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[In thought I travel back tonight]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Tenney Incipit: 12323 53212 23432

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My Old Country Home

Author: G. Tabor Thompson Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In thought I travel back tonight Refrain First Line: Thus far the Lord has led me on Used With Tune: [In thought I travel back tonight]

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My Old Country Home

Author: G. Tabor Thompson Hymnal: Songs for Service #20 (1905) First Line: In thought I travel back tonight Refrain First Line: Thus far the Lord has led me on Languages: English Tune Title: [In thought I travel back tonight]
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My Old Country Home

Author: G. Tabor Thompson Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #79 (1894) First Line: In thought I travel back tonight Refrain First Line: Thus far the Lord has led me on Languages: English Tune Title: [In thought I travel back tonight]

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J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Composer of "[In thought I travel back tonight]" in Songs for Service 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

G. Tabor Thompson

Author of "My Old Country Home" in Songs for Service Thompson, G. Tabor. (19th century). Little information has been available on this author, except that he succeeded J.H. Burke as song leader under A.B. Simpson at the New York Gospel Tabernacle about 1890. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives
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