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J. B. Coats
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Short Name: J. B. Coats
Full Name: Coats, J. B. (James Buchanan), 1901-1961
Birth Year: 1901
Death Year: 1961

J.B. Coats was born on April 6, 1901, in Summerland, Mississippi. He attended the schools of his area and was both a student and lover of music all his life...His formal education was continued with study at Mississippi Southern College and Louisiana State University. He also studied music with Julius Rishing, J.E. and Alvis O. Thomas and T.B. Mosley. When just a lad about fourteen, he began teaching music classes and conducting evangelistic singing. Mr. Coats was a teacher in public schools most of his life...He was the composer of many loved gospel songs with "Where Could I Go" haveing been printed and sung most widely. Others of his outstanding songs are "A Wonderful Place", "My Soul Shall Live On", "I'm Winging My Way Back Home", and "Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye". Many of his songs have been recorded by leading quartets and singers...Mr. Coats was associated with Stamps-Baxter Music Company and a lifetime staff writer for them...He joined the Baptist Church and served more than thirty years as a Deacon before answering the call to the ministry. He died on December 15, 1961.

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Tunes by J. B. Coats (130)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[A beautiful, beautiful home]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A feeling within you is leading you onward]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A heartbeat felt, a spoken word]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[A mother old and gray stood silently one day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Adown the narrow road, to heaven's blest abode]J. B. Coats (Composer)223231 12323 11121
[All the way, every day]J. B. Coats (Composer)233233 53353 23323
[At evening, when twilight]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Be saved, the warning comes today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Before I found salvation]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Brother today the way is bright]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Calm on the bosom of thy God] (Coats)J. B. Coats (Arranger)2
[Cast your care upon the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Christ, the Lord is the Life]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Darkness falls around me, hordes of evil hound me]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Dear friend, I've known you but a day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Down deep in my soul a melody rings]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[Drifted have I as days have passed by]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Each day I feel a friendly hand]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Each day we read that someone's missing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Earthly life is only one short day]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[Every passing day all along the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Far in the depths and death nearing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Father, like an orphaned child, I am tempted, oft beguiled]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Gentle rivers are flowing free]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Get your ticket ready, board the train for heaven]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Gladly I am singing, cheerful is my ode]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Glory, glory Jesus needs me]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God knows our weakness, when death comes along]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[God needs our souls for His kingdom]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God's hand came stealing, His love revealing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[God's holy word in truth divine]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Have you a burden, is your heart sad]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Holy be, holy be, holy be thy name]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am caught and I'm whirled in this fast moving world]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am dreaming tonight of the home folks]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am longing for heaven and the wonderful time]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I am on the rainbow trail]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I have a secret I cannot tell]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I have dreamed a million times of a home in heaven's clime]J. B. Coats (Composer)234563 51235 62314
[I know the Truth, it is food for the soul]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I love to be alone with Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[I often wondered, when I was just a lad]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I remember long ago when just a boy]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I was once a sinner, just a weary sinner]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[I would not walk without Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[If there is a brother in your church or town]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[If you have given your life to Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[If you're needing a friend in this troublesome land]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm a debtor, I know, every day I live]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm leaving for home at the end of the day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm looking for tomorrow]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I'm treading the highway to glory today]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[In a valley, so green, mother's sleeping today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In lands afar, across the deep]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In the harvest field today is waving golden grain]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[In the rattle of the battle, fighting for my Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[I've a message sinner friend, I would have you hear today]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[I've a story to tell, 'tis the story of Jesus]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[I've had enough crying, I've had enough sighing]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Jesus is my dearest Friend]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Jesus, my heavenly King, loves me, I know]J. B. Coats (Composer)5
[Kind words, like flowers ever blooming]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Life is filled with great temptations all along the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Life is the station sending messages]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Lord, I feel Thy presence]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Loudly the call to the colors]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Man was made the image of his Maker]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Many are living a life here below]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many sermons have I heard proclaiming God's own Word]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many strange things today we can hear on the way]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many years ago I found the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Many years I've wasted, squandered, on the road of sin]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Master, where shall I work today?]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[My body is weak, overtaken by the fall]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[My prayer today to the Master above]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Oft we are made to weep]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Old Moses lay adreaming, the hour was deep in the midnight]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[One bleak day I heard God say]J. B. Coats (Composer)5
[One day a mother came to the prison]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[One day I heard a still, small voice to say]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[One day my soul was saved, saved from the fall]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[One ship driving east and another west]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Press along, rejoicing, each passing day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Raise a mighty song, for a Son is born]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sing of a land where freedom reigns]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[Sinner, listen, Holy Spirit calls]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[So many seek pleasures which lead to harm]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Some golden morn, some happy day]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Some people like a gilded cage]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sometimes I grieve in sorrow, sometimes I weep aloud]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Sometimes up and sometimes down]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[Soul far away, think of the woe]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[The Bible tells in Luke nineteen]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[The little cares that fettered me]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[The prodigal son found it while he was kneeling]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[The will of God must work within the hearts of living men]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There is a light ever shining]J. B. Coats (Arranger)3
[There is a place just over the sea]J. B. Coats (Composer)455561 33331 33332
[There is a place of gladness beyond this vale of tears]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There's a city of joy and rapture, supernal]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[There's a home-coming day up in heaven]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[This life is hard to understand]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[This life is like a day of time]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Though she is lying full six feet]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Traveling on, singing a song]J. B. Coats (Composer)256135 61356 13555
[Trouble just can't pass you by]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
['Twas late one evening, the sun was low]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Wake up, O sinner, God needs a winner]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[We never know at the dawn of day]J. B. Coats (Composer)5
[We will go in the strength of the Lord]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[What a wonderful feeling]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When I heard the invitation]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When I was but a child, not many years ago]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[When my toiling is over, at setting sun]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When my trials are ended, and my race has been run]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When the cares of life shall have passed away]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When the fervent heat of judgment comes to cover all the world]J. B. Coats (Composer)234554 56555 61765
[When the storms of life sweep over my soul]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[When toiling is ended and my burdens are laid down]J. B. Coats (Composer)3
[When your life is sad and lonely]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Living below in this old sinful world]James B. Coats (Composer)5533331 21121 11233
[Wherever I roam, in joy or in sorrow]J. B. Coats (Composer)213334 46653 33234
[While in this lonely world I plod]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[While traveling through a weary land]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[While we're praying, while we're pleading]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Who but God can paint the sky]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Who conquers the world beneath the sun]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Wonderful the love of Jesus, from all fear the Spirit frees us]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
[Workers on a building rare]J. B. Coats (Composer)4
[You have read the Holy Bible and you know what should be done]J. B. Coats (Composer)2
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