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Display Title: He lifted me up to stay First Line: I was sinking down in the waves of sin Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney; Gene Routh Date: 1928
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He Lifted Me Up to Stay
I was sinking down in the waves of sin
Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinneyTune: [I was sinking down in the waves of sin]
Published in 2 hymnals
Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney
Pseudonyms--
Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin)
Otto Nellen
Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh)
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Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942.
McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Wor… Go to person page >Instances
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The American Hymnal #318
Display Title: He Lifted Me Up to Stay First Line: I was sinking down in the waves of sin Tune Title: [I was sinking down in the waves of sin] Author: Gene Routh Date: 1933
The American Hymnal #318
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