He's Everything to Me

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I have a loving Savior, Who died to set me free

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: GREENLAND (Haydn)
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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:	I have a loving Savior, Who died to set me free
Title:	He's Everything to Me
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I cannot do without Him
Publication Date:	1913
Copyright:	Public Domain

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GREENLAND (Haydn)

GREENLAND, an example of the popular nineteenth-century practice of creating hymn tunes from the works of classical composers, is thought to be originally from one of J. Michael Haydn's (PHH 67) "Deutschen Kirchen Messen." The tune acquired its title from its occasional association with the text "Fr…

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