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[We may lighten toil and care]

Appears in 69 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55171 23217 65621 Used With Text: Keep the Heart Singing

Keep Your Heart Singing

Author: Chas. H. Gabriel Appears in 87 hymnals First Line: We may lighten toil and care Used With Tune: [We may lighten toil and care]

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Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: Revival Praises #19 (1907) First Line: We may lighten toil and care Refrain First Line: Keep the heart singing all the while Lyrics: 1 We may lighten toil and care, Or a heavy burden share, With a word, a kindly deed, or sunny smile; We may girdle day and night With a halo of delight, If we keep the heart singing all the while. Chorus: Keep the heart singing all the while; Make the world brighter with a smile; Keep the song ringing! lonely hours we may beguile, If we keep the heart singing all the while. 2 If His love is in the soul, And we yield to His control, Sweetest music will the lonely hours beguile; We may drive the clouds away, Cheer and bless the darkest day, If we keep the heart singing all the while. [Chorus] 3 How a word of love will cheer, Kindle hope, and banish fear, Soothe a pain, or take away the sting of guile; Oh, how much we all may do, In the world we travel thro', If we keep the heart singing all the while. [Chorus] Tune Title: [We may lighten toil and care]

Keep the Heart Singing

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #50 (1916) First Line: We may lighten toil and care Refrain First Line: Keep the heart singing all the while Lyrics: 1 We may lighten toil and care, Or a heavy burden share, With a word, a kindly deed, or sunny smile; We may girdle day and night With a halo of delight, If we keep the heart singing all the while. Chorus: Keep your heart singing all the while, (singing, singing all the while;) Make the world brighter with a smile, (brighter, brighter with a smile;) Keep the song ringing! lonely hours we may beguile, If we keep the heart singing all the while. 2 If His love is in the soul, And we yield to His control, Sweetest music will the lonely hours beguile; We may drive the clouds away, Cheer and bless the darkest day, If we keep the heart singing all the while. [Chorus] 3 How a word of love will cheer, Kindle hope, and banish fear, Soothe a pain, or take away the sting of guile; Oh, how much we all may do, In the world we travel thro', If we keep the heart singing all the while. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [We may lighten toil and care]

Keep Your Heart Singing

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: The Voice of Praise #84 (1904) First Line: We may lighten toil and care Refrain First Line: Keep your heart singing all the while Lyrics: 1 We may lighten toil and care, Or a heavy burden share, With a word, a kindly deed, or sunny smile; We may girdle day and night With a halo of delight, If we keep our hearts singing all the while. Chorus: Keep your heart singing all the while, Make the world brighter with a smile, Keep the song ringing, lonely hours we may beguile, If we keep our hearts singing all the while. 2 If his love is in the soul, And we yield to his control, Sweetest music will the lonely hours beguile; We may drive the clouds away, Cheer and bless the darkest day, If we keep our hearts singing all the while. [Chorus] 3 How a word of love will cheer, Kindle hope and banish fear, Soothe a pain or take away the sting of guile; O how much we all may do In the world we travel thro', If we keep our hearts singing all the while. [Chorus] Tune Title: [We may lighten toil and care]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: C. H. G. Author of "Keep the Heart Singing" in Timeless Truths Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman