While afar you wander seeking wealth and fame

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While afar you wander seeking wealth and fame

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [While afar you wander seeking wealth and fame]
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

1 While afar you wander seeking wealth and fame,
Tho' in stranger lands you may roam;
Knowing that they love you ev'ry day the same.
Don't forget "The old folks at home."

Refrain:
Don't forget "The old folks at home,"
Cheer their loving hearts while you roam;
Don't forget that they may soon be called away,
Don't forget "The old folks at home."

2 When by evil tempted from the upward way,
Light divine will brighten the goal
If you think of those who taught you how to pray,
Don't forget "The old folks at home." [Refrain]

3 Do you wish to meet them in the world above?
Love them while on earth they must roam;
Cheer them with your letters, soothe them with your love.
Don't forget "The old folks at home." [Refrain]

Source: Vocal Gems: our greatest song book for all religious services. Especially recommended for Sunday schools, revivals, W. M. B. and V. L. B. services #120

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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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