Down in the valley with my Saviour I would go
Down in the valley with my Saviour I would go. William Orcutt Cushing* (1823-1902).
Written in 1878, this hymn was published in Robert Lowry*’s Good as Gold hymn book: a new collection of Sunday school songs (New York and Chicago, 1881), with a tune by Lowry entitled FOLLOW ON. Ira D. Sankey* was a great admirer of Cushing’s work: Sankey printed it in Sacred Songs and Solos (1882 edition, and subsequently), with the title ‘Follow On!’, and a quotation: ‘‘‘If any man serve Me, let him follow Me’’- John xii.26.’. It had a refrain and three stanzas: The refrain was:
Follow! follow! I would follow Jesus!Anywhere, ev’rywhere, I would follow on!Follow! Follow! I would follow Jesus!Ev’rywhere He...
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