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THE DYING CALIFORNIAN

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Drinkard; Ball Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 12323 21613 55321 Used With Text: Lay up nearer, brother, nearer

Lie up nearer, brother, nearer

Appears in 4 hymnals Used With Tune: THE DYING CALIFORNIAN

Lay up nearer, brother, nearer

Author: Kate Harris Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: THE DYING CALIFORNIAN

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Lay up nearer, brother, nearer

Author: Kate Harris Hymnal: The Sacred Harp #410a (1991) Languages: English Tune Title: THE DYING CALIFORNIAN

Lie up nearer, brother, nearer

Hymnal: The Good Old Songs #537 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: THE DYING CALIFORNIAN

Composer of "THE DYING CALIFORNIAN" in The Sacred Harp Possibly John Smith Drinkard (1808-ca. 1865) who was born in South Carolina and was living in Georgia in 1830 and 1840, and in Alabama in 1850. The Makers of the Sacred Harp, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan, University of Illinois Press, 2010

Kate Harris

Author of "Lay up nearer, brother, nearer" in The Sacred Harp

R. F. Ball

1840 - 1862 Composer of "THE DYING CALIFORNIAN" Robert F. Ball (ca. 1840-12 August 1862) was born in Monroe County, Georgia, the son of Jonathan Ball and Eliza Osmore. According to Ogletree, he was a staunch Methodist. The youngest member of the 1859 revision committee for The Sacred Harp, he died near Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War. The Makers of the Sacred Harp: Addenda and Corrigenda (accessed online 8/12/2019)