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[You're starting, my boy, on life's journey]

[You're starting, my boy, on life's journey]

Composer: H. R. Palmer
Published in 25 hymnals


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Audio files: MIDI

Composer: H. R. Palmer

Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In A… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [You're starting, my boy, on life's journey]
Composer: H. R. Palmer
Incipit: 55111 71355 52221
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #2218
Text: Have Courage to Say No!
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 25 of 25)
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Choice Songs #102

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Diadems #173

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Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns) #250

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Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 #250

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Garnered Gems #138

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Gospel Hymns No. 5 #136

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Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #401

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Junior Praises #70

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Minnetonka Songs #78

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Popular Hymns Number 2 #247

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Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets #58

Sacred Songs and Solos #579

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Song-Land Messenger Complete #30

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Songs and Music #371

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Songs for Young People #135

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Temperance Day Number 6 #14

The Anti-Saloon League Song Book #50

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The Canadian Hymnal #336

The Canadian Hymnal #336

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The Chapel Hymnal #S23

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The Cyber Hymnal #2218

The Search Light #139

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The World Evangel #175

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The World Revival Songs and Hymns #151

White Ribbon Vibrations #55

Exclude 24 pre-1979 instances
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