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A Battle Song

Author: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: With a song on our lips and our flag unfurled Refrain First Line: Like a mighty army on we move

[With a song on our lips and our flag unfurled]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Incipit: 13553 66377 76717 Used With Text: A Battle Song

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Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: Sing Unto the Lord #251 (1906) First Line: With a song on our lips and our flag unfurled Refrain First Line: Like a mighty army on we move! Languages: English Tune Title: [With a song on our lips and our flag unfurled]

Like a mighty army on we move

Author: Charles H. Gabriel Hymnal: The Gospel Chorus #d106 (1907) First Line: With a song on our lips and our flag unfurled

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel Author of "A Battle Song" Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman