Albert E. Brumley

Albert E. Brumley
Albert E. Brumley
Short Name: Albert E. Brumley
Full Name: Brumley, Albert E. 1905-1977
Birth Year: 1905
Death Year: 1977

Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri.

Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.

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Wikipedia Biography

Albert Edward Brumley (October 29, 1905 – November 15, 1977) was an American shape note music composer and publisher, prolific in the genre of southern gospel.

Texts by Albert E. Brumley (250)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancessort descending
I am weak but Thou art strongAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English1
If you want to be a ChristianAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
Let the little sunbeam inAlbert E. Brumley (Arranged)1
Wonderful things of folks are saidA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
A Dios las gracias yo doy que he renacidoAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Algún día cuando esto terminéAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Amid the shadows of life I wend my wayA. E. B. (Author)English2
As I go traveling day by dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
As you wend your way to the soul's abodeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Back through the years I'd like to wendAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Brother, while this world you're traveling through, speak a little word for the Master trueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Cual ave triste en su prisiónAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Do you need a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
El mundo no es mi hogar, soy peregrinoAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish2
En todo este mundo séAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Every evening when I count my blessingsA. E. B. (Author)2
Every time I feel the least bit unworthyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Far beyond the clouds a home is waitingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Far beyond this land of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Give me a life filled with old fashionedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Give me back the old time powerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Gone is all my weight of sinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Here I plod along on life's uneven journeyA. E. B. (Author)English2
Here so oft we are turned fromAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Here so often I'm lonely, here so often I'm blueA. E. B. (Author)English2
Here we move from place to placeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Here you pass me on the highways in this unfriendly landA. E. B. (Author)English2
Honest and truly, Lord, Sometimes my feet would strayA. E. B. (Author)2
How much could we gain with a pray'r, If God wasn't really there?Albert E. Brumley (Author)2
How sweet the memory of daysAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I am telling the grand old storyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I am thinking about the day when our Savior knelt down to prayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I am thinking of a celebrationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I don't know exactly how sweetAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I have been redeemed, I haveAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I have fondest recollection of the days that used to beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I have read about that city gransAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I have read about the beauties of the South SeasA. E. B. (Author)English2
I have started for a city in a land of fadeless dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I know the Lord will make a way for me, I know the Lord will make a way for meAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English2
I wandered again to my home in the mountainsA. E. B. (Author)English2
I want to be an example for the turthAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I was turning through my mother's dear BibleA. E. B. (Author)English2
I went on a visit, On a heavenly visitA. E. B. (Author)English2
If I had all the words in our languageA. E. B. (Author)English2
If I owned all the gold and the silverA. E. B. (Author)English2
If the Savior came to your house unexpectedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you are burdened, weary and oppressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you have never heard the story of the Christ of GalileeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you travel sin's uncertain wayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you will give to me your undivided attentionAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you would be a true discipleAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you've never known the glory ofAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I'm waiting by the river sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
In a land far away is a soldier todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
In the long ago the precious Savior'sAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
It was springtime, the flowers were gayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've a friend close by my sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I've a smile of gladnessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've been reading my BibleA. E. B. (Author)2
I've heard them sing of home sweet homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've just about tarried long enough hereAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Jesus gave His life to pardon every nationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Lily white hands will lead meAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Listen to the voices sweetly callingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Long ago in old Judea by the GalileanAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Look, look, look by His light we're ledAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Look to the western horizonAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Many are wanedring out in darknessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Many have loads to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Many the time I am torn with disappointmentA. E. B. (Author)English2
Many times my soul is over burdenedA. E. B. (Author)English2
Many years I roamed, many years I trodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
May we all walk closer to Thy sideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
May we meet again some bright tomorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Mine has been a life of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
No matter how dark the nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Now, brother, I am confessing that I've wandered in paths of sinA. E. B. (Author)English2
O listen to the voice of Jesus, as He calls for you todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
O you compromising Christian on life's wayA. E. B. (Author)English2
Often times I sit sown in my parlorAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Often when the evening shadowsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Once from God I wanderedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Once I wandered out in sin Far, far awayA. E. B. (Author)English2
Once I was sighingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Once my soul was astray from the heavenly wayA. E. B. (Arranger)English2
One by one, the Savior calls his childrenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
One day I met an old fashioned motherAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
One glad day Jesus cameAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Part of my life brings tears of regretAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Since I have turned from sinful pleasure Jesus has freely blest my soulAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Since I reached life's goal I'd like to strollAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Singing, singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
So many years I wandered, precious moments squanderedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
So oft I dream of heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Some delightful morning we shall have a better lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Some mother's boy has gone astrayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Somehow tonight I'm lonesomeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Sometimes when my pathway I hardly can seeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Sometimes when sorrow overcomes us and the darkness hovers lowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Somewhere deep in the hillsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Take my hand in Thine, O LordAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
The world's greatest story in the BibleAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
The world's greatest story in the Bible is toldAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There are mothers with beautiful featuresAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
There are people who would rather live in splendorA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is a city, bright eternal way over on the golden strandA. E. B. (Author)2
There is a Friend to whom I clingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is a song that the world is singingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There is gladness all aroundAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There is plenty of sunshineAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There's a certain feelingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There's a heavenly land of peace and joy eternalA. E. B. (Author)2
There's a little old church in a valleyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There's a valley where the mocking birds are singingA. E. B. (Author)English2
They crucified my Savior (Brumley)A. E. B. (Author)2
They're having a big revivalAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Though you wander in the bywaysAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
To the flaming field of battle! We are marching to warAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Ve conmigo, mi buen SalvadorAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2
We are a band of Christians marchingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
We love the Red, White and BlueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Well, who could it be that tenderly holds my trembling handAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
We've answered to the battle cry to conquer over sinA. E. B. (Author)English2
What a happy day of jubilationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
What makes the flowersAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When heavy burdens oppress meAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When I have reached myAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When I reach that golden shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
When my hair to silver is turningA. E. B. (Author)English2
When my time comes to cross o'er the riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When the Savior gave hisAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When the storms of life are raging all around youA. E. B. (Author)English2
When the world would try to leadAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When you by sorrow are distressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When you have reached the end of your journeyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When you're feeling discouraged and lonelyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Why am I weepingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Why must the world be tornAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Wonderful the praise that is coming from heaven, over on the bright eternal shoreA. E. B. (Author)English2
You may not feel the gentle handAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
All the world is bright and cheeryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
By the crystal river we shall live forever over in a land where comes no nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Dear Lord of Calvary, again I come to theeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Dreamin' in the glimerin' twilight, dreamin' of a flickerin' firelightA. E. B. (Author)3
Every springtime gayA. E. B. (Author)3
Everybody it seems has a cabin of dreamsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Flowers blooming in the wild woodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Hark, I hear the voice of Jesus To the harvest fields awayA. E. B. (Arranger)English3
Have you ever been down to community singAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Hello, I'm just a strangerA. E. B. (Author)English3
Honest and truly, Lord,Albert E. Brumley (Author)3
I am laying my treasures up in the skyA. E. B. (Author)English3
I am on my journey To that city foursquareAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I am on my way to heaven, I am on my way to heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English3
I believe that Jesus died on the crossAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I have started for a city on that bright eternalAlbert Brumley (Author)3
I hear a mighty chorus sweetly singing over on that bright, eternal shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I used to be a sinner, an erring child of GodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I used to be a sinner and my load was hard to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I was listening in to a radio stationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
If you wander all alone in sin and darkest nightA. E. B. (Author)3
If you would ever do your very bestAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I'm only an orphanAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
In a little while this fleeting life will all be overAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
In sin I once was straying, no thought of ever prayingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
It seemed I had traveled for agesAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
It was the blood of the crucified OneAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I've had the blood appliedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I've heard them sing He paid the priceAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal lightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Just beyond death's rolling riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Let me go down to the banks of the riverA. E. B. (Author)3
Life's few allotted years is but a trailAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Looking back through the years to a mangerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Lord, I would not ask a special blessingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
My race is nearly run, my workAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
On that eternal morning in yonder landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Seems that I can see a little chapelA. E. B. (Author)3
Some day our last goodbyes on earth will all be spokenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Some people often ask me where I goAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Somebody's blue, weary and blueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Sometimes the roses bloom and every thing is gayA. E. B. (Author)English3
There are mansions high, there are mansions wideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
There is a most wondrous cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
There is an old fashioned cabinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
There's a city over there, a city bright and fairAlbert Brumley (Author)3
There's a way that leads to joys of everlasting lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
For the truth and the rightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
I am just another wayworn pilgrimA. E. B. (Author)4
I am so glad I heard my Savior gently pleadingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
I have just enlisted in the service of the KingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
I wandered again to my old cabin homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
If the Love of God has saved youAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
I'm pressing on through this world of careAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
In this busy life with its changing scenesAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Lord, how well do I know I'll have little to showAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
No place to hide when days are long and drearyA. E. B. (Author)4
Often the burdens of life seem hardAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
Sure, there's a God who is ruling on highAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
There is many a cross to carryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
There's an old ramshackle shackAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
They killed my Lord on CalvaryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
This world is not my home, I'm just passing byA. E. B. (Author)English4
Well, I went down to the big camp meetin'Albert E. Brumley (Author)4
When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slowA. E. B. (Author)English4
Come and listen in to a radio stationA. E. B. (Author)5
Do you live a life that's true for the One who died for you?A. E. B. (Author)English5
I am on the way to mansions in the sweet by and byA. E. B. (Author)English5
I cannot touch the hem of his garmentAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
I know there is a land of beautiful flowersAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
I was once lost in sin, despairingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
I'm traveling on to the new JerusalemAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
Is there anybody here today that wants to change their wayA. E. B. (Author)English5
Ride on, God's children, to that beautiful landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
Somebody ought to go and work for JesusAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Somebody's been a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
Thank God! I truly can say that I've been born againA. E. B. (Author)5
While traveling upon the sands of timeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abodeA. E. B. (Author)6
Here so many are breaking traditionsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
I'm going to a celebration Up yonder in the skyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
In the new found way, the gospel highwayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
Out in this cold world, and far away from homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
Some day I shall stand in God's cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
There's a little pine log cabinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
Won't it be a happy, happy dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
Won't it be a happy morning over the seaAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
Ever since Jesus saved and pardoned I have been singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English7
Press along weary pilgrim through the strugglesA. E. B. (Author)English7
Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)7
You better get acquainted with your Lord a little betterA. E. B. (Author)English7
Every time I do a deedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
I was wandering far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shameAlbert E. Brumley (Author)8
Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger hereAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
There's a city of light, where there cometh no nightAlbert Brumley (Author)8
If you are burdened down with careAlbert E. Brumley (Author)9
Jesus gave his life a ransom yonder on CalvaryA. E. B. (Author)English11
Here I stand beside death's chilly waters waiting for my final callAlbert E. Brumley (Author)12
If working and praying has any rewardA. E. B. (Author)12
On the cross of Calvary our blessed Savior diedA. E. B. (Author)English13
As I journey through this vale of sorrowA. E. B. (Author)15
Over on the bright elysian shoreA. E. B. (Author)English15
Once like a bird in prison I dweltAlbert E. Brumley (Author)16
In this world I've tried most everything And I'm happy now to sayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English17
On the rugged cross of Calvary, Jesus gave His life for youA. E. B. (Author)English21
Soon we'll come to the end of life's journeyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English37
I will meet you in the morning by the bright river sideA. E. B. (Author)English40
As I travel through this pilgrim landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English42
Some glad morning when this life is o'erA. E. B. (Author)English64

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