[Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]

[Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]

Composer: J. H. Tenney
Published in 33 hymnals


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Audio files: MIDI, Recording

Composer: J. H. Tenney

John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]
Composer: J. H. Tenney
Meter: 9.6.9.6 with refrain
Incipit: 11233 44311 66165
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 33 of 33)
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Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #169

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Choice Gospel Hymns #100

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Christ in Song #534

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Crown of Beauty #158

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Epworth Songs #28

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Favorite Gospel Songs #14

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Gathered Jewels No. 2 #34

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Grateful Praise #49

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Honey Out of the Rock #62

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Honey Out of the Rock #62

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Hymns New and Old, Revised #119

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Hymns New and Old #57

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Light and Life Songs No. 3 #152

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Light and Life #64

New Spiritual Songs #49

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #167

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Popular Hymns No. 3 #40

Popular Hymns, revised #6

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Praise in Song #64

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Purest Gems #89

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Small Church Music #3676

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Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School #49

Spiritual Songs #25

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Standard Revival Songs #27

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Sunday School Songs #21

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The Christian Sunday School Hymnal #7

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The Church Hymnal #632

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The Golden Sheaf #11

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The Gospel Song Sheaf #179

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The New Jubilee Harp #541

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The New Jubilee Harp #541

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #1199

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Words of Life #79

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