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Thread #5783   Message #727492
Posted By: GUEST,Nikki Strandskov
11-Jun-02 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Keep on the Sunny Side
Subject: Keep on the sunny side as a hymn
While doing some genealogy work for a friend I read an account of a family reunion of members of the Church of the Brethren held in 1910 where, among the hymns sung by the family was "Keep on the Sunny Side." Now, these folks didn't sound like bluegrass people, and I thought I might find the tempo they sang it to in the Cyberhymnal (www.cyberhymnal.org) but it wasn't there. An Internet search got me a lot of stuff about Oh Brother, and the information that A.P. Carter, who's usually credited with the song, recorded it first probably in 1927 or 1928. Yet, these rather unworldly folks in rural Nebraska seemed to know it, so I'm guessing it appeared in some kind of gospel hymnal. Any hymnal collectors out there who can tell me who *really* wrote it and where I could find an original version?