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Thread #7414   Message #3545847
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Aug-13 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley)
I was wrong about the original publisher. hymnary.org and the Celebration Hymnal (#779) say that the song was published in 1932 by Hartford Music Company, in a book called Wonderful Message.

According to hymnary.org, Albert E. Brumley enrolled in the Hartford Musical Institute of Hartford, Arkansas, in 1926, and studied there through 1931. The Institute was led by Eugene Monroe Bartlett (1884–1941), owner of the Hartford Music Company. Brumley purchased Hartford Music Company in 1948.

I find just the three verses in the hymnals I have.

-Joe-