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Hand Me Down My Trumpet

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I ain't been to heaven but I've been told Refrain First Line: O hand me down
Hand Me Down My Trumpet

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[I ain't been to heav'n but I've been told]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. Edmiaston Used With Text: Hand Me Down My Trumpet
[I ain't been to heav'n but I've been told]

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Hand Me Down My Trumpet

Hymnal: Jubilee Spirituals #174 (1945) First Line: I ain't been to heav'n but I've been told Refrain First Line: O hand me down Languages: English Tune Title: [I ain't been to heav'n but I've been told]
Hand Me Down My Trumpet
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Hand Me Down My Trumpet

Hymnal: Southland Spirituals #53 (1936) First Line: I haven't been to heav'n but I've been told Refrain First Line: O hand me down Languages: English Tune Title: [I haven't been to heav'n but I've been told]
Hand Me Down My Trumpet

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J. B. Herbert

1852 - 1927 Arranger of "[I haven't been to heav'n but I've been told]" in Southland Spirituals
J. B. Herbert

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Arranger of "[I ain't been to heav'n but I've been told]" in Jubilee Spirituals Bernard Bates Edmiaston Born: Ju­ly 16, 1881, Ben­netts, Bax­ter Coun­ty, Ar­kan­sas. Died: De­cem­ber 2, 1964, Bronte, Tex­as. Buried: Fair­view Ce­me­te­ry, Bronte, Tex­as. Bernard was the son of Da­vid W. Ed­mi­as­ton and Geor­gia Ann Flu­ty, and hus­band of El­la Al­len. He stu­died mu­sic un­der Ru­fus Tur­ner, Frank­lin Ei­land, W. H. Law­son, Ber­ry Mc­Gee, Em­mett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Her­bert, and ma­ny oth­ers, and taught sing­ing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and pub­lished songs through the Trio Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, Wa­co, Tex­as, and was di­rec­tor of the South­ern De­vel­op­ment Nor­mal School of Mu­sic in W­aco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
B. B. Edmiaston
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