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Thread #52971   Message #813093
Posted By: masato sakurai
28-Oct-02 - 09:36 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Life's Railway To Heaven / Union Miners?
Subject: RE: Origins: Life's Railway To Heaven / Union Miners?
Sheet music from the Levy site:

Title: Life's Railway to Heaven. [Also includes alternate text "The Gospel Highway."
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by M.E. Abbey. Music by Charlie D. Tillman.
Charlie D. Tillman Publication: Atlanta, GA.: Charlie Tillman Song Book Co., 1893.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Life is like a mountain railroad, With an engineer that's brave
First Line of Chorus: Blessed Saviour, Thou wilt guide us, Till we reach that blissful shore
Subject: Railroads
Subject: Railroad employees
Subject: Religion--symbols
Duplication: cover same as Box 58 Item 111-A
Call No.: Box: 058 Item: 111b

~Masato