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Tune Title: NEVER TURN BACK First Line: When to that blessed world I rise Composer: F. E. Parkerson; J. P. Reese Meter: L.M. Key: g minor Date: 1991
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NEVER TURN BACK
NEVER TURN BACK
Arranger: J. P. Reese (1869); Arranger: F. E. Parkerson (1869)Published in 1 hymnal
Arranger: J. P. Reese
John Palmer "Ripples" Reese was born in Jasper County, Georgia. After service in the Civil War as a member of the 37th Georgia Infantry, he spent most of his life as a composer and singing instructor in the Sacred Harp movement. He was a revisor for the 1859 edition of The Sacred Harp. He was president of the Chattahoochee Convention. Reese died in 1900, in Newnan, Georgia.
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