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[I have a Friend who is always the same]

[I have a Friend who is always the same]

Composer: Herbert Buffum (1915)
Published in 3 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. 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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Tune Information

Title: [I have a Friend who is always the same]
Composer: Herbert Buffum (1915)
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

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Diamonds #124

Diamonds #124
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Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets #14

Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets #14
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Songs for Service #124

Songs for Service #124
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