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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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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.
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Tunes by Albert E. Brumley (239)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Adown that lonesome road to heaven's blest abode]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)555631 15563 11331
[All my affections are nailed to the cross]Albert E. Brumley (Harmonizer)1
[All the world is bright and cheery]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)234532 31334 53521
[Amid the shadows of life I wend my way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
ANCIENT LANDMARKAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)634555 34451 17656
[As an army we're marching to heaven]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)212335 53321 12335
[As I go traveling day by day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[As I journey through this vale of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1051323 43216 15551
[As I travel through this pilgrim land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4255565 31113 23216
[Back through the years I'd like to wend my way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)151235 45416 11243
[Beyond this land of shadows]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135545 65344 33424
[Brother, while this world you're traveling through, speak a little word for the Master true]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[By the crystal river we shall live forever over in a land where comes no night]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)355556 53323 21555
CLOSER WALK (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)1
[Come and listen in to a radio station]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)655661 12335 65332
[Dear Lord of Calvary, again I come to Thee]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Do you live a life that's true for the One who died for you?]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)5
[Do you stand on the brink of decision]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Dreamin' in the gilmerin' twilight, dreamin' of a flickerin' firelight]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[En todo este mundo sé]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153334 55534 4465
[Ever since Jesus saved and pardoned I have been singing every day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)633455 45664 56533
[Every evening when I count all my blessings]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Every springtime gay]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256123 65671 65567
[Every time I do a deed I shouldn't do]Albert M. Brumley (Composer)3
[Far away on the banks of the river of life]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 66665 35712
[Far beyond this land of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[For the truth and the right, precious Lord, have I stood] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4
[Give me back the old time power]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)156533 23156 53323
[Gone is all my weight of sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)156161 65313 21615
GONNA SHINEAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)433213 35433 21442
[Hark! I hear the voice of Jesus] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)3
[Have you been the kind of Christian that you really should have been]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 56517 67166
[Hello, I'm just a stranger]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Here I plod along on life's uneven journey]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Here so oft we are turned from an unfriendly door]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334565 31112 16113
[Here so often I'm lonely, here so often I'm blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Here you pass me on the highways in this unfriendly land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)212355 53532 31213
[Honest and truly, Lord]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)354565 34341 23545
[How sweet the memory of days that used to be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135555 32121 65511
[I am just another way-worn pilgrim]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)633323 45321 21121
[I am on my way to heaven] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)1
[I am on the way to mansions in the sweet by and by]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)355553 45153 44324
[I am so glad I heard my Savior gently pleading]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)432355 53213 21313
[I am telling the grand old story of the wonderful King of glory]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 45653 21117
[I am thinking of a celebration]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 56653 21717
[I am weak, I am weary, but I must go along]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112333 31334 12334
[I am walking with my Savior day by day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I believe that Jesus is the Son of God]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I cannot touch the hem of His garment]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)334451 32161 17655
[I have been redeemed, I have free salvation]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)235531 32116 53451
[I have fondest recollection of the days that used to be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I have just enlisted in the service of the King]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[I have left the land of bondage with its earthly treasures]Albert E. brumley (Composer)1832321 23212 17616
[I have read about the beauties of the South Seas]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I have started for a city in a land of fadeless day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I have started for a city on that bright eternal shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)534555 56511 64444
[I hear the angel band, I'm nearing gloryland]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153322 32111 11766
[I hear the Savior calling today]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)134555 56165 34512
[I know the Lord will make a way for me] (Harris)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)151233 34231 33455
[I know there is a land of beautiful flowers]Albert E. brumley (Composer)734456 53321 61446
[I oft take a trip to scenes of my childhood]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I used to be a sinner, an erring child of God]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I used to be a sinner and my load was hard to bear]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I wandered again to my home in the mountains]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I wandered again to my old cabin home]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)251113 23216 51355
[I wandered in sin and sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135555 53123 11161
[I once was lone and idle, I was a sinner too]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)151111 13133 33353
[I was listening into a radio station]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I was once lost in sin, despairing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)453332 34312 11171
[I was turning through my mother's dear old Bible]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I was wandering far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shame]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)534556 53511 64615
[I was wand'ring far from Jesus in the paths of sin and shame]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I went on a visit]Albert E. brumley (Composer)1
[I will meet you in the morning by the bright river side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)4155533 43111 21613
[If I had all the words in our language]Albert E. brumley (Composer)2
[If I owned all the gold and the silver]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[If the Love of God has saved you, my brother]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134554 51535 42176
[If the Savior came to your house unexpected]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[If working and praying has any reward]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)556561 14561 3121
[If you are burdened down with care]Albert E. brumley (Composer)456535 11332 32116
[If you have never heard the story of the Christ of Galilee]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If you wander all alone in sin and darkest night]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[If you want to be a Christian, don't heed what others say]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)112333 33553 33315
[If you will give to me your undivided attention]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[If you would be a true disciple, you've got to do it right]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153111 32355 31161
[If you've never known the glory of Salvation's grand old story]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 56534 55116
I'LL FLY AWAYAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)6531513 23431 66531
[I'm going to a celebration]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)335454 53213 21121
[I'm laying my treasures up in the sky]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[I'm pressing on through this world of care]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[I'm traveling on to the new Jerusalem]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)356111 56532 11111
[I'm waiting by the river side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[In a land far away is a soldier today]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[In a little while this fleeting life will all be over]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256543 23211 76565
[In dreams of yesterday I wandered]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[In sin I once was straying, no thought of ever praying]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[In the long ago the precious Savior's blood did flow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)111111 44444 11135
[In the new found way, the gospel highway]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)534533 22113 55556
[In this busy life with its changing scenes]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)311355 33231 11355
[In this world I've tried most everything]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1312355 53211 23556
[Is there anybody here today that wants to change their way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)434555 55531 33331
[It seemed I had traveled for ages]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)255321 22351 11121
[It was springtime, the flowers were gay]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)151354 35211 11176
[I've a friend close by my side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I've been pardoned by the blood of Jesus] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135565 65332 11112
[I've been reading my Bible]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[I've heard them sing He paid the price]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)535556 11165 55633
[I've just about tarried long enough here]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135553 33231 13332
[I've read about a city foursquare, a city of eternal light]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)213321 33551 33332
[Jesus gave His life a ransom yonder on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2255561 11133 32116
[Jesus, I've wasted so much of my time]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Just beyond death's rolling river]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)1
[Just suppose that the world turned against you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Let me go down to the banks of the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Let the little sunbeam in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Life's few allotted years is but a trail of tears]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153234 33211 65123
[Like a ship on the sea you are drifting]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)534555 61653 56561
[Lily-white hands will lead me safe through the valley]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)233456 53132 16111
[Listen to the voices sweetly calling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Long ago in old Judea, by the Galilean shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 32121 64615
[Look, look, look by His light we're led]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Look to the western horizon]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Looking back through the years to a manger]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134531 46653 55522
[Lord, how well do I know I'll have little to show]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Lord, I sometimes feel just like a stranger here]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)856533 32321 13345
[Lord, I would not ask a special blessing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Lord, the nights are so long and my burdens so great]Albert E. Brumley, 1905-1977 (Composer)112332 11655 43555
[Many the time I am torn with disappointment]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Many times my soul is over burdened]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)132113 45653 55666
[Many years I roamed]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155331 17161 16513
[May we all walk closer to Thy side]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[May we meet again some bright tomorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
MEET AGAINAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)4534532 32161 12355
[Mine has been a life of sorrow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)133213 55323 44543
[My Savior died upon the cross]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[No place to hide when days are long and dreary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[Now, brother, I am confessing that I've wandered in paths of sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Now you surely could if you only would stand on that rock where Moses stood]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)1
[O I don't have to tell you what the Lord has done]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[O you compromising Christian on life's way]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Often the burdens of life]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)256656 53232 15665
[Often times I sit down in my parlor]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155512 32135 32112
[Often when the evening shadows are falling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155556 55443 35555
[O the dawn of the morn]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)156513 23116 51232
[On the cross of Calvary our blessed Savior died]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2434523 21332 16556
[On the rugged cross of Calvary] (Brumley)Albert E. brumley (Composer)1453123 51615 13565
[Once I wandered out in sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Once I was sighing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Once like a bird in prison I dwelt]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1155613 55611 11321
[Once my life was sad and dreary and the road was rough and long]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)111156 56711 12323
[Once my soul was astray from the heavenly way]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)354563 55617 15561
[Once some men were chatting in a little country store]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[One day I met an old fashioned mother]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Out in this cold world, and far away from home] (Hanna)A. E. Brumley (Arranger)131233 12161 51135
[Over on the bright elysian shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1533445 54653 23232
[Part of my life brings tears of regret]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Press along, weary pilgrim, through the struggles and strife]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)656153 23134 55655
[Ride on God's children to that beautiful land]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)355616 56356 15565
[Seems that I can see a little chapel]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Since I reached life's goal I'd like to stroll back to the fold]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)132321 21761 76532
[Since I walk with my Lord, trusting in His Holy word]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[So many years I wandered, precious moments squandered]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Some day our last goodbyes on earth will all be spoken]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Some mother's boy has gone astray]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153432 11111 21655
[Some people often ask me where I go]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)133234 32165 33553
[Somebody ought to go and work for Jesus]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Somebody's been a friend indeed]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Somebody's blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)154534 64344 65435
[Some day I shall stand in God's city]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)656111 32165 56165
[Sometimes the roses bloom and every thing is gay]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Sometimes when my pathway I hardly can see]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Somewhere deep in the hills, among the wild flowers]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)133323 52212 31117
[Soon this life will all be over]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112332 43112 32121
[Sure, there's a God who is ruling on high]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)254565 45443 43423
[Take me back I pray if only for a day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155565 31112 32111
[Take my hand in Thine, O Lord]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Tell me - if there is no Higher Power, then who hung the stars in the sky?]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[Thank God! I truly can say that I've been born again]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)356556 53116 76422
[The world's greatest story in the Bible is told]Albert E. Brumley, 1905-1977 (Composer)435321 51164 65555
[There are mansions high, there are mansions wide]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There are mothers with beautiful features]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There are people who would rather live in splendor]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134545 45456 53217
[There is a city, bright eternal 'way over on the golden strand]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There is a city of wonderful love eternal]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155535 53131 65611
[There is a Friend to whom I cling]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)253451 11117 66553
[There is a most wondrous city]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There is a song that the world is singing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)254533 23455 54567
[There is an old-fashioned cabin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)254653 22117 21465
[There is joy, joy, joy since the Lord came in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There is many a cross to carry]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[There's a blessed land of song and story]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153211 16716 56531
[There's a certain feeling that I never can express]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155113 35544 64324
[There's a city of light] (Brumley)Albert Brumley (Composer)534555 35566 65551
[There's a city over there, a city bright and fair]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 55566 66665
[There's a heavenly land of peace and joy eternal]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There's a little old church in a valley]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)113565 32321 56111
[There's a little pine log cabin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)354545 65332 32321
[There's a valley where the mocking birds are singing]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There's a way that leads to joys of everlasting life]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[There's an old ramshackle shack]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[They crucified my Savior] (Brumley)Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[They killed my Lord on Calvary]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[They're having a big revival]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin throughAlbert E. Brumley (Composer)4713332 13211 65511
[Though a pilgrim, a stranger, a beggar I be]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)655653 23211 13217
[Though you wander in the byways]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
BY AND BYAlbert E. Brumley (Arranger)112333 21211 61123
[We are a band of Christians marching on to victory]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)133324 32165 54655
[We love the Red, White and Blue]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Well, I went down to the big camp meetin']Albert E. Brumley (Composer)213553 35532 13353
[Well, we ought to get together and praise the Lord]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155555 53132 32111
[Well, who could it be that tenderly holds my trembling hand]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[We've answered to the battle cry to conquer over sin]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[What a beautiful thought I am thinking]Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)2
[When He calls me I will answer] (Lango)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)112314 43213 32744
[When heavy burdens oppress me and everything goes wrong]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)135555 43345 55433
[When I have reached my journey's end and on those portals lean]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)153111 35556 44144
[When I was steeped in sin my Savior took me in]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[When I'm through with all my trouble]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[When life's burdens overtake us]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)133216 51531 23233
[When my hair to silver is turning]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)413556 66533 23116
[When my spirits are low and my footsteps are slow]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)3
[When my time comes to cross the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)2
[When the Savior gave His precious life for me]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134517 65654 33543
[When the storms of life are raging all around you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[When the way of life I cannot understand]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[When the world would try to lead me astray]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)151332 34123 66572
[When you pray to Him in secret for the things you need each day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)156532 23133 45643
[While traveling upon the sands of time]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)331113 23212 16551
[While we stand by the river]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)155523 21111 21616
WHOLE WORLD (Spiritual)Albert E. Brumley (Arranger)155353 13555 55442
[Why am I weeping, why do I sigh]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)156531 21615 56533
[Wonderful the praise that is coming from heaven, over on the bright eternal shore]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)1
[Wonderful things of folks are said]A. E. B. (Arranger)131616 51233 25231
[Won't it be a happy, happy day]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)516561 61651 23333
[You are who you are for a reason]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)112321 45651 35552
[You better get acquainted with your Lord a little better]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)6
[You may laugh at these old-fashioned notions of mine]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134555 66653 33221
[You may not feel the gentle hand that daily leads you]Albert E. Brumley (Composer)134455 55332 13155

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