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We'll Never Be Late

We'll never be late to Sabbath school

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [We'll never be late to Sabbath school]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 We’ll never be late to Sabbath school,
We’ll come at the opening hour;
To help all our teachers, it is the rule
To do all within our pow’r.

Chorus:
We’ll never be late, no, we’ll never be late;
And this is an excellent rule,
For teachers and scholars, for parents and friends,
To always come early to school;
We’ll never be late to Sabbath school,
We’ll come at the opening hour;
To help all our teachers, it is the rule
To do all within our pow’r.

2 Thro’ all the long week ‘twill be our rule
To study the lesson giv’n;
And then Sabbath morning to haste to school
That we may prepare for heav’n. [Chorus]


Source: Inspiring Songs No. 1: for the Sunday school #38

Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We'll never be late to Sabbath school
Title: We'll Never Be Late
Author: Thoro Harris
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We'll never be late, no, we'll never be late
Copyright: Public Domain

Instances

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Inspiring Songs No. 1 #38

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Little Branches No. 4 #45

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