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I Wanna Be Ready

Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: John said the city was just four-square Text Sources: Negro Spiritual

[That city John saw was-a built four square]

Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: V. O. Fossett Incipit: 11135 56661 53212 Used With Text: I Want to be Ready

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Author: Anonymous Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3171 First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Lyrics: Refrain I want to be ready, I want to be ready, I want to be ready, To walk in Jerusalem just like John. 1. John said the city was just foursquare, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. And he declared he’d meet me there, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain] 2. O John, O John, what do you say? Walk in Jerusalem just like John. That I’ll be there at the coming day, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain] 3. When Peter was preaching at Pentecost Walk in Jerusalem just like John. He was endowed with the Holy Ghost, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain] 4. If you get there before I do, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. Tell all my friend I’m a-comin’, too, Walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [John said the city was just foursquare]

Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John

Hymnal: Praise and Worship Hymns #145 (1927) First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Refrain First Line: I want to be ready Topics: Spirituals Languages: English Tune Title: [John said the city was just foursquare]

I Want to be Ready

Author: B. B. E. Hymnal: Jubilee Spirituals #175 (1945) First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Languages: English Tune Title: [John said the city was just foursquare]

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J. R. Baxter

1887 - 1960 Person Name: J. R. Baxter, Jr. Arranger of "I Want to be Ready" in Jubilee Spirituals Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960) Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama. Died: January 21, 1960. Baxter grew up in DeKalb County, Alabama. In 1926, he bought part of Virgil Stamps’ Gospel music firm, which became the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, one of the most successful Gospel music publishers of the early 20th Century. Baxter ran the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, office until Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dallas, Texas, to run the main office. After Baxter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the business until she died; it was then sold to Zondervan. Baxter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 1997. Lyrics-- After the Sunrise Farther Along God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940) He Bore It All I Have Peace in My Soul I Hold His Hand (© 1929) I Love My Savior, Too I Want to Help Some Weary Pilgrim I’m Living in Canaan Now Living Grace Praise the Lamb of God Something Happens Travel the Sunlit Way Try Jesus When He Blessed My Soul When We Meet to Part No More © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Anonymous

Author of "I Want to Be Ready" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Arranger of "BE READY" in African American Heritage Hymnal Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist. Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University. She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North). Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era. --en.wikipedia.org

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