J. B. Coats

J. B. Coats
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Short Name: J. B. Coats
Full Name: Coats, J. B. (James Buchanan), 1901-1961
Birth Year: 1901
Death Year: 1961

J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961.

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Texts by J. B. Coats (189)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A beautiful, beautiful home, In heaven we all shall seeJ. B. C. (Author)English2
A feeling within you is leading you onwardJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
A heartbeat felt, a spoken wordJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
A mocking bird was singing as we stood beside a graveJ. B. C. (Author)English2
A mother old and gray stood silently one dayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Adown the narrow road, to heaven's blest abodeJ. B. C. (Author)English2
After your heart has been brokenJ. B. C. (Author)English1
All the way, every day, Happiness is mineJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Always humble, always humbleJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Angels are being created by GodJ. B. C. (Author)English2
As a lad I did not realize that I should prayJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
As I sit here alone in the twilightJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
At evening, when twilight Has shaded the dayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
At the bedside of my motherJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Back in childhood, I rememberJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Be saved, the warning comes todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Before I found salvation, Before I knew the LordJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Beyond the firing line, I'll see my Friend divineJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Brother, today the way is bright, Jesus the King, the truth, the lightJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Christ the Lord is the lifeJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Come listen, my friend, a message I bringJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Could we only draw the curtainJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Darkness falls around me, hordes of evil hound meJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
Dear friend, I've known you but a dayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Deep in my heart I have a joyful songJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
Deep within my heart I love TheeJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Did you give him a lift? he's a brother manJ. B. Coats (Alterer)English1
Down deep in my soul a melody ringsJ. B. Coats (Author)English6
Drifted have I as days have passed byJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Each day I feel a friendly handJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Each day we read that someone's missingJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Earthly life is only one short dayJ. B. C. (Author)English10
Every day as I travel onJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Every day you listen to God's holy WordJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Far in the depths and death nearingJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Father, like an orphaned child, I am tempted, oft beguiledJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Gentle rivers are flowing freeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Gladly I am singing, cheerful is my odeJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Glory, glory, Jesus needs meJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
God knows our weakness, when death comes alongJ. B. C. (Author)English3
God needs our souls for His kingdomJ. B. C. (Author)English1
God's hand came stealing, His love revealingJ. B. C. (Author)English2
God's holy word in truth divineJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Great camp meeting in days of yore, saints beholding love's open doorJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Greater love can no man showJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Harmony from heaven haunts meJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Have you a burden, is your heart sadJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Have you ever seen the glory of the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Having been saved to work for the LordJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Heaven has its stars, shining clearJ. B. Coats (Author)2
Holy be, holy be, holy be Thy nameJ. B. C. (Author)English7
Hours are spent in dreaming of the pastJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I am dreaming tonight of the home folksJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I am longing for heaven and the wonderful timeJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I am on the rainbow trailJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Saved for a WitnessJ. B. C. (Author)English1
I have a home in the glory land, living waters ever flowJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
I have a secret I cannot tellJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
I have dreamed a million times of a home in heaven's climeJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I know the truth it is food for the soulJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
I love to be alone with Jesus, To tell Him every joy and careJ. B. C. (Author (Chorus))English5
I often wondered, when I was just a ladJames B. Coats (Author)English2
I remember long ago when just a boyJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
I was once a sinner, just a weary sinnerJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I was standing by the bedside of a neighbor old and grayJ. B. C. (Author)English1
I wonder if a soul by my action can tellJ. B. Coats (Author)1
I would not walk without JesusJ. B. C. (Author)English5
I would tell to you in song and storyJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
If naught of love this world did knowJ. B. C. (Author)English2
If sometime you should hear across the nightJ. B. C. (Author)English4
If there is a brother in your church or townJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
If you're needing a friend in this troublesome landJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I'm a debtor, I know, every day I liveJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
I'm leaving for home at the end of the dayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
I'm looking for tomorrowJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
I'm treading the highway to glory todayJ. B. C. (Author)English3
In a place called heaven, far beyond the skyJ. B. C. (Author)English2
In a valley so green, mother's sleeping todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
In all my sin, there was not one who caredJ. B. C. (Author)English4
In lands afar, across the deepJ. B. C. (Author)English2
In the harvest field today is waving golden grainJ. B. C. (Author)English2
In the rattle of the battle, fighting for my LordJ. B. C. (Author)English3
I've a message sinner friend, I would have you hear todayJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
I've a story to tell, 'tis the story of JesusJ. B. C. (Author)English4
I've had enough crying, I've had enough sighingJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Just a curtain between all the good and the badJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Kind words, like flowers ever bloomingJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Let me tell you of a mansionJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Let the Christian be praying for the one who is strayingJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Life is filled with great temptations all along the wayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Life is passing down here as we live day by dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Life is the station sending messages nowJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Living below in this old sinful worldJ. B. C. (Author)English136
Lonely days filled with careJ. B. C. (Author)English4
Lord, I feel Thy presence, As the moments flyJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Loudly the call to the colorsJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Man was made the image of his MakerJ. B. Coats (Author)English6
Many are living a life here belowJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Many sermons have I heard proclaiming God's own WordJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Many strange things today we can hear on the wayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Many years ago I found the LordJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Many years I've wasted, squandered, on the road of sinJ. B. C. (Author)English5
Master, where shall I work todayJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Mother, if your son is sleeping 'neath the blueJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Much is said about the people that you meet from day to dayJ. B. C. (Author)English1
My body is weak, overtaken by the fallJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
My prayer today to the Master aboveJ. B. C. (Author)English2
O wonderful, so wonderful is ChristJ. B. Coats (Author)1
Oft we are made to weepJ.B.C. (Author)English3
Old Moses lay adreaming, the hour was deep in the midnightJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
On the road to glory, through this pilgrim landJ. B. Coats (Author)1
Once I was a sinnerJ.B.C. (Author)1
Once I was a sinner, in darkness all aloneJ. B. C. (Author)English3
One day a mother came to the prisonJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
One day I heard a still, small voice to sayJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
One day my soul was saved, saved from the fallJ. B. C. (Author)English6
One ship driving east and another westJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Over the mountain and down through the valeJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Pilgrim, pilgrim where goeth thou?J. B. C. (Author)English1
Preaching is daily leading souls arightJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Raise a mighty song for a Son is bornJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Sing of a land where freedom reignsJ. B. C. (Author)English5
Sinner, how about your soul?J. B. C. (Author)English5
Sinner, listen, Holy Spirit callsJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Slowly the evening sun was sinkingJ. B. C. (Author)English1
So long as there is hope to which I turn at close of dayJ. B. C. (Author)1
Some people like a gilded cageJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Sometime, when I am deep in sinJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Sometimes I grieve in sorrow, sometimes I weep aloudJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Sometimes I think of thoseJ. B. Coats (Author)1
Sometimes up and sometimes downJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Somewhere my dreams will all come trueJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Soul far away, think of the woeJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
The Bible tells in Luke nineteenJ. B. C. (Author)English2
The depths of sin we never, never knowJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
The ninety and nine lay safe in care divineJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
The prodigal son found it while he was kneelingJ. B. C. (Author)English4
The rich man raised his eyes in torment, looking far and wideJ. B. Coats (Author)1
The will of God must work within the hearts of living menJ. B. C. (Author)English1
There is a light ever shiningJ. B. C. (Author)English3
There is a place of gladness beyond this vale of tearsJ. B. C. (Author)English3
There is a still, small voiceJ. B. Coats (Author)1
There is a story covered with gloryJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
There's a beautiful home in heaven, so fairJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
There's a lovely land beyond the silent riverJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
There's a story in the Bible, you have heard it oft beforeJ. B. C. (Author)English3
There's nothing Lord, I've done for Thee that worldly men can ever seeJ. B. Coats (Author)1
Think of stepping on a shore, and finding it is heavenJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
This book unfolds Jehovah's mindJ. B. Coats (Author)3
This life is hard to understand, The way is narrow and steepJ. B. C. (Author)English3
This life is like a day of timeJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
Though she is lying full six feetJ. B. C. (Arranger)English1
Through a world of sorrow we are passingJ. B. Coats (Author)1
Traveling on, singing a songJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
Trouble just can't pass you byJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
'Twas late one evening, the sun was lowJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Wake up, O sinner, God needs a winnerJ. B. C. (Author)English9
Water for meJ. B. Coats (Author)1
We are in the army of the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
We never know at the dawn of dayJ. B. Coats (Author)English9
We will go in the strength of the LordJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Weary here, but I must travel some moreJ. B. C. (Author)English2
What a wonderful feeling, just to know He is mineJ. B. C. (Suggested by)English1
When clouds of sin like a mad river rollJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
When I come to cross the riverJ. B. Coats (Author)2
When I heard the invitationJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
When I lay me down to sleepJ.B.C. (Author)1
When I was a little lad, the best friend I ever hadJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
When I was but a child, not many years agoJ. B. C. (Author)English3
When I was but a lad with dear old Mom and DadJ. B. C. (Author)1
When my toiling is over, at setting sunJ. B. Coats (Author)English3
When the cares of life shall have passed awayJ. B. C. (Author)English2
When the fervent heat of judgment comes to cover all the worldJ. B. Coats (Author)English4
When the Holy Spirit came into my soulJ. B. C. (Author)English1
When the loud trumpet sound we hear, waking the dead both far and nearJ. B. C. (Author)English2
When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound for me one dayJ. B. C. (Author)English1
When the trumpet sounds so loud, what a timeJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
When you are lonely, clouds hide the blueJ. B. Coats (Author)English5
Where there is love, the love of GodJ. B. Coats (Author)English1
Wherever I roam, in joy or sorrowJ. B. C. (Author)English3
While traveling through a weary landJ. B. Coats (Author)English2
While we're praying, while we're pleadingJ. B. C. (Author)English3
Who but God can paint the skyJ. B. C. (Author)English1
Who conquers the world beneath the sunJ.C. (Author)English4
Why must it be, dear Lord, I now ask?J. B. C. (Author)English1
With every rising of the sunJ. B. Coats (Arranger)English1
Wonderful the love of Jesus, from all fear the Spirit frees usJ. B. C. (Author)English2
Workers on a building rare, Building for eternityJ. B. C. (Author)English6
You have read the Holy Bible and you know what should be doneJ. B. C. (Author)English2
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