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[O jag har en vän som älskar mig]

Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.7.9.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. L. Skoog Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 13553 31216 55133

Han är när

Author: A. L. S. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: O jag har en vän som älskar mig Used With Tune: [O jag har en vän som älskar mig]

He is near, ever near

Author: A. L. Skoog; Joseph E. Anderson Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: I have a Friend who cares for me Used With Tune: HAN ÄR NÄR

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Han är när

Author: A. L. S. Hymnal: De Ungas Sångbok #46 (1914) First Line: O jag har en vän som älskar mig Languages: Swedish Tune Title: [O jag har en vän som älskar mig]

Author: A. L. Skoog; Joseph E. Anderson Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America #367 (1950) First Line: I have a Friend who cares for me Languages: English Tune Title: HAN ÄR NÄR

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A. L. Skoog

1854 - 1934 Person Name: A. L. S. Author of "Han är när" in De Ungas Sångbok Skoog, Andrew L. (Gunnarskog, Sweden, December 17, 1856 [sic]--October 30, 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Evangelical Covenant. Son of pietists. Tailor's apprentice at 10. Family emigrated to St. Paul, Minn., when Andrew was 13. Only formal music training was 12 lessons on a melodeon. Organist, choir director, and Sunday School superintendent in Swedish Tabernacle, Minneapolis, 1886-1916. Co-editor of hymnals: Evangelii Basun I & II, 1881-1883; Lilla Basunen, 1890; and Jubelklangen, 1896. Was in editorial committee of Covenant's first three hymnals: Sions Basun, 1908; De Ungas Sångbok, 1914; and Mission Hymns, 1921. Editor and publisher of Gittit 1892-1908, a monthly choir journal with music; a series of ten bound volumes of choir selections; and many hymns. --J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives