[Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]

[Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]

Composer: J. H. Tenney
Published in 29 hymnals


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Composer: J. H. Tenney

John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1840, Row­ley, Mass­a­chu­setts. Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of "Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too," Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent Will­iam Hen­ry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude: Amer­i­can Male Choir Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1879) Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Com­… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Closer to Thee, my Father, draw me]
Composer: J. H. Tenney
Meter: 9.6.9.6 with refrain
Incipit: 11233 44311 66165
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Small Church Music #3676

Include 28 pre-1979 instances
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