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We Are Going Down the Valley
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 78 hymnals First Line: We are going down the valley one by one
We Are Going Down the Valley
[We are going down the valley one by one]
Appears in 45 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James H. Fillmore, Sr. Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12333 33423 11222 Used With Text: We Are Going Down the Valley
[We are going down the valley one by one]
We Are Going Down the Valley
Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services #120 (1917) First Line: We are going down the valley, one by one Lyrics: 1 We are going down the valley one by one,
With our faces tow'rd the setting of the sun;
Down the valley where the mournful cypress grows,
Where the stream of death in silence onward flows.
Refrain:
We are going down the valley,
Going down the valley,
Going tow'rd the setting of the sun;
We are going down the valley,
Going down the valley,
Going down the valley one by one.
2 We are going down the valley one by one,
When the labors of the weary day are done;
One by one, the cares of earth forever past,
We shall stand upon the river brink at last. [Refrain]
3 We are going down the valley one by one:
Human comrade you or I will there have none;
But a tender hand will guide us lest we fall:
Christ is going down the valley with us all. [Refrain]
4 We are going down the valley one by one:
Yet before the shadowed vale may come the dawn,
When with rapture we shall gather in the sky;
"We shall be changed," but some shall never die! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [We are going down the valley, one by one]
We Are Going Down the Valley
We Are Going Down the Valley
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds; Unknown Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7163 First Line: We are going down the valley one by one Lyrics: 1. We are going down the valley one by one,
With our faces tow’rd the setting of the sun;
Down the valley where the mournful cypress grows,
Where the stream of death in silence onward flows.
Refrain
We are going down the valley,
Going down the valley,
Going tow’rd the setting of the sun;
We are going down the valley,
Going down the valley,
Going down the valley one by one.
2. We are going down the valley one by one,
When the labors of the weary day are done;
One by one, the cares of earth forever past,
We shall stand upon the river brink at last. [Refrain]
3. We are going down the valley one by one:
Human comrade you or I will there have none;
But a tender hand will guide us lest we fall:
Christ is going down the valley with us all. [Refrain]
4. We are going down the valley one by one:
Yet before the shadowed vale may come the dawn,
When with rapture we shall gather in the sky;
We shall all be changed, but some shall never die! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [We are going down the valley one by one]
We Are Going Down the Valley
We Are Going Down the Valley
Author: Jessie H. Brown Hymnal: The Evangelist No. 3 #59 (1894) First Line: We are going down the valley, one by one Refrain First Line: We are going down the valley, going down the valley Languages: English Tune Title: [We are going down the valley, one by one]
We Are Going Down the Valley
Anonymous
Person Name: Unknown Author (vs. 4) of "We Are Going Down the Valley" 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.
Anonymous
Jessie Brown Pounds
1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie H. Brown Author of "We Are Going Down the Valley" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis.
A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Jessie Brown Pounds
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, Sr. Composer of "[We are going down the valley one by one]" in The Cyber Hymnal James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
