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When They Sing of "Home, Sweet Home"

A pilgrim and a stranger here, I've no abiding place

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [A pilgrim and a stranger here] (Lorenz)
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line: A pilgrim and a stranger here, I've no abiding place
Title: When They Sing of "Home, Sweet Home"
Author: Herbert Buffum
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Home, home, sweet, sweet home
Publication Date: 1923
Copyright: Public Domain
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New Gospel Quartets for Men's Voices #5

New Gospel Quartets for Men's Voices #5
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