It Won't Be Long

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Though as pilgrims here we tarry for a few brief years

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Though as pilgrims here we tarry for a few brief years]
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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Though as pilgrims here we tarry for a few brief years
Title:	It Won't Be Long
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, it won't be long till we all get home
Copyright:	Public Domain