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 (249)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
You may not feel the gentle handAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
You better get acquainted with your Lord a little betterA. E. B. (Author)English7
Won't it be a happy, happy dayA. E. B. (Author)English6
Wonderful things of folks are saidA. E. B. (Arranger)English1
Wonderful the praise that is coming from heaven, over on the bright eternal shoreA. E. B. (Author)English2
Why must the world be tornAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Why am I weepingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
While traveling upon the sands of timeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
When you're feeling discouraged and lonelyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When you have reached the end of your journeyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When you by sorrow are distressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When the world would try to leadAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When the storms of life are raging all around youAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
When the Savior gave hisAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When my time comes to cross o'er the riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slowA. E. B. (Author)English4
When my hair to silver is turningA. E. B. (Author)English2
When I reach that golden shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
When I have reached myAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
When heavy burdens oppress meAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
What makes the flowersAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
What a happy day of jubilationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
We've answered to the battle cry to conquer over sinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Well, who could it be that tenderly holds my trembling handA. E. B. (Author)English2
Well, I went down to the big camp meetin'A. E. B. (Author)English4
We love the Red, White and BlueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
We are a band of Christians marchingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Ve conmigo, mi buen SalvadorA.E.B. (Author)Spanish2
To the flaming field of battle! We are marching to warAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Though you wander in the bywaysAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English7
This world is not my home, I'm just passing byAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
They're having a big revivalAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
They killed my Lord on CalvaryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
They crucified my Savior (Brumley)A. E. B. (Author)2
There's an old ramshackle shackAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
There's a way that leads to joys of everlasting lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
There's a valley where the mocking birds are singingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There's a little pine log cabinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
There's a little old church in a valleyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There's a heavenly land of peace and joy eternalAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
There's a city over there, a city bright and fairAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
There's a city of light, where there cometh no nightAlbert Brumley (Author)8
There's a certain feelingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There is plenty of sunshineAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There is many a cross to carryA. E. B. (Author)English4
There is gladness all aroundAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
There is an old fashioned cabinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
There is a song that the world is singingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is a most wondrous cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
There is a Friend to whom I clingA. E. B. (Author)English2
There is a city, bright eternal way over on the golden strandA. E. B. (Author)English2
There are people who would rather live in splendorA. E. B. (Author)English2
There are mothers with beautiful featuresA. E. B. (Author)English2
There are mansions high, there are mansions wideAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
The world's greatest story in the Bible is toldAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
The world's greatest story in the BibleAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Won't it be a happy morning over the seaAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
Thank God! I truly can say that I've been born againAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Take my hand in Thine, O LordAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Sure, there's a God who is ruling on highAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Soon we'll come to the end of life's journeyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English37
Somewhere deep in the hillsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Sometimes when sorrow overcomes us and the darkness hovers lowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Sometimes when my pathway I hardly can seeA. E. B. (Author)English2
Sometimes the roses bloom and every thing is gayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Somehow tonight I'm lonesomeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Somebody's blue, weary and blueA. E. B. (Author)English3
Somebody's been a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Somebody ought to go and work for JesusAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English5
Some people often ask me where I goAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Some mother's boy has gone astrayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Some glad morning when this life is o'erAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English64
Some delightful morning we shall have a better lifeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Some day our last goodbyes on earth will all be spokenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Some day I shall stand in God's cityAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
So oft I dream of heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
So many years I wandered, precious moments squanderedA. E. B. (Author)English2
Singing, singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Since I reached life's goal I'd like to strollAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Since I have turned from sinful pleasure Jesus has freely blest my soulAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Seems that I can see a little chapelAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Ride on, God's children, to that beautiful landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
Press along, weary pilgrim, through the struggles and strifeA. E. B. (Author)English7
Part of my life brings tears of regretAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Over on the bright elysian shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English15
Out in this cold world, and far away from homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
One glad day Jesus cameAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
One day I met an old fashioned motherAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
One by one, the Savior calls his childrenAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Once my soul was astray from the heavenly wayA. E. B. (Arranger)English2
Once like a bird in prison I dweltAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English16
Once I was sighing, My Savior denyingA. E. B. (Author)English2
Once I wandered out in sin Far, far awayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Once from God I wanderedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
On the rugged cross of Calvary, Jesus gave His life for youA. E. B. (Author)English21
On the cross of Calvary our blessed Savior diedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English13
On that eternal morning in yonder landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Often when the evening shadowsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Often times I sit sown in my parlorAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Often the burdens of life seem hardAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
O you compromising Christian on life's wayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
O listen to the voice of Jesus, as He calls for you todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Now, brother, I am confessing that I've wandered in paths of sinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
No place to hide when days are long and drearyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
No matter how dark the nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
My race is nearly run, my workAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Mine has been a life of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
May we meet again some bright tomorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
May we all walk closer to Thy sideA. E. B. (Author)English2
Many years I roamed, many years I trodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Many times my soul is over burdenedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Many the time I am torn with disappointmentA. E. B. (Author)English2
Many have loads to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Many are wanedring out in darknessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Lord, I would not ask a special blessingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger hereAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
Lord, how well do I know I'll have little to showAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Looking back through the years to a mangerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Look to the western horizonAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Look, look, look by His light we're ledA. E. B. (Author)English2
Long ago in old Judea by the GalileanAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Listen to the voices sweetly callingA. E. B. (Author)English2
Lily white hands will lead meAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Life's few allotted years is but a trailAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Let the little sunbeam inAlbert E. Brumley (Arranged)1
Let me go down to the banks of the riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Just beyond death's rolling riverAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Jesus gave His life to pardon every nationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Jesus gave His life a ransom yonder on CalvaryAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English11
I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal lightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I've just about tarried long enough hereAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've heard them sing of home sweet homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've heard them sing He paid the priceA. E. B. (Author)English3
I've had the blood appliedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I've been reading my BibleA. E. B. (Author)English2
I've a smile of gladnessAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I've a friend close by my sideA. E. B. (Author)English2
It was the blood of the crucified OneAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
It was springtime, the flowers were gayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
It seemed I had traveled for agesA. E. B. (Author)3
Is there anybody here today that wants to change their wayA. E. B. (Author)English5
In this world I've tried most everything And I'm happy now to sayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English17
In this busy life with its changing scenesAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
In the new found way, the gospel highwayA. E. B. (Author)English6
In the long ago the precious Savior'sAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
In sin I once was straying, no thought of ever prayingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
In a little while this fleeting life will all be overAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
In a land far away is a soldier todayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I'm waiting by the river sideA. E. B. (Author)English2
I'm traveling on to the new JerusalemA. E. B. (Author)English5
I'm pressing on through this world of careAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
I'm only an orphanAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I'm going to a celebration Up yonder in the skyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English6
If you've never known the glory ofAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you would ever do your very bestAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
If you would be a true discipleAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you will give to me your undivided attentionA. E. B. (Author)English2
If you want to be a ChristianAlbert E. Brumley (Author)1
If you wander all alone in sin and darkest nightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
If you travel sin's uncertain wayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you have never heard the story of the Christ of GalileeA. E. B. (Author)2
If you are burdened, weary and oppressedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
If you are burdened down with careAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English9
If working and praying has any rewardAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English12
If the Savior came to your house unexpectedA. E. B. (Author)English2
If the Love of God has saved youAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
If I owned all the gold and the silverA. E. B. (Author)English2
If I had all the words in our languageAlbert E. brumley (Author)English2
I will meet you in the morning by the bright river sideA. E. B. (Author)English40
I went on a visit, On a heavenly visitAlbert E. brumley (Author)English2
I was wandering far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shameAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
I was turning through my mother's dear old BibleAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I was once lost in sin, despairingA. E. B. (Author)English5
I was listening in to a radio stationA. E. B. (Author)English3
I want to be an example for the turthAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I wandered again to my old cabin homeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
I wandered again to my home in the mountainsA. E. B. (Author)English2
I used to be a sinner and my load was hard to bearAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I used to be a sinner, an erring child of GodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I know there is a land of beautiful flowersA. E. B. (Author)English5
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 hear a mighty chorus sweetly singing over on that bright, eternal shoreAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I have started for a city on that bright eternalA. E. B. (Author)3
I have started for a city in a land of fadeless dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I have read about the beauties of the South SeasA. E. B. (Author)English2
I have read about that city gransAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I have just enlisted in the service of the KingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
I have fondest recollection of the days that used to beAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I have been redeemed, I haveAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I don't know exactly how sweetAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I cannot touch the hem of His garmentA. E. B. (Author)English5
I believe that Jesus died on the crossAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I am weak but Thou art strongAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English1
I am thinking of a celebrationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I am thinking about the day when our Savior knelt down to prayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
I am telling the grand old storyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
I am so glad I heard my Savior gently pleadingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
I am on the way to mansions in the sweet by and byA. E. B. (Author)English5
I am on my way to heaven, I am on my way to heavenAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)English3
I am on my journey To that city foursquareAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
I am laying my treasures up in the skyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
I am just another wayworn pilgrimA. E. B. (Author)4
How sweet the memory of daysAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
How much could we gain with a pray'r, If God wasn't really there?Albert E. Brumley (Author)2
Honest and truly, Lord, Sometimes my feet would strayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English4
Here you pass me on the highways in this unfriendly landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Here we move from place to placeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Here so often I'm lonely, here so often I'm blueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Here so oft we are turned fromAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Here so many are breaking traditionsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)6
Here I stand beside death's chilly waters waiting for my final callAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English12
Here I plod along on life's uneven journeyA. E. B. (Author)English2
Hello, I'm just a strangerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Have you ever been down to community singAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Hark, I hear the voice of Jesus To the harvest fields awayA. E. B. (Arranger)English3
Gone is all my weight of sinAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Give me back the old time powerAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Give me a life filled with old fashionedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
For the truth and the rightAlbert E. Brumley (Author)4
Flowers blooming in the wild woodAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Far beyond this land of sorrow, There's a city of delightA. E. B. (Author)English2
Far beyond the clouds a home is waitingAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Every springtime gayA. E. B. (Author)English3
Everybody it seems has a cabin of dreamsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English3
Every time I feel the least bit unworthyAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Every time I do a deedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English8
Every evening when I count my blessingsAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Ever since Jesus saved and pardoned I have been singing every dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English7
En todo este mundo séAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2
El mundo no es mi hogar, soy peregrinoAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Dreamin' in the glimerin' twilight, dreamin' of a flickerin' firelightA. E. B. (Author)English3
Do you need a friend indeedAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Do you live a life that's true for the One who died for you?A. E. B. (Author)English5
Dear Lord of Calvary, again I come to theeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)3
Cual ave triste en su prisiónAlbert Brumley (Author)Spanish2
Come and listen in to a radio stationAlbert E. Brumley (Author)5
By the crystal river we shall live forever over in a land where comes no nightA. E. B. (Author)English3
Brother, while this world you're traveling through, speak a little word for the Master trueAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English2
Back through the years I'd like to wendAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
As you wend your way to the soul's abodeAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
As I travel through this pilgrim landAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English42
As I journey through this vale of sorrowAlbert E. Brumley (Author)English15
As I go traveling day by dayAlbert E. Brumley (Author)2
Amid the shadows of life I wend my wayA. E. B. (Author)English2
All the world is bright and cheeryA. E. B. (Author)English3
Algún día cuando esto terminéAlbert Edward Brumley (1905-1977) (Author)Spanish2
Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abodeA. E. B. (Author)English6
A Dios las gracias yo doy que he renacidoAlbert E. Brumley (Author)Spanish2

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