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[Where the busy crowds were thronging]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 34555 55555 61765 Used With Text: Follow Me
[Where the busy crowds were thronging]
Follow Me
Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Where the busy crowds were thronging Lyrics: 1 Where the busy crowds were thronging,
By the Galilean sea,
Came a loving voice to Matthew:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
2 “Give up this your golden harvest;
Yield it bravely and be free!
Give up all your toil for riches:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
3 Oh, that ‘mid our toil for riches,
Jesus’ face we too may see,
And obey His loving bidding:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
Used With Tune: [Where the busy crowds were thronging]
Follow Me
Follow Me
Hymnal: Gems and Jewels #115 (1890) First Line: Where the busy crowds were thronging Lyrics: 1 Where the busy crowds were thronging,
By the Galilean sea,
Came a loving voice to Matthew:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
2 “Give up this your golden harvest;
Yield it bravely and be free!
Give up all your toil for riches:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
3 Oh, that ‘mid our toil for riches,
Jesus’ face we too may see,
And obey His loving bidding:
“Follow me, follow me,
Follow me, follow me.”
Languages: English Tune Title: [Where the busy crowds were thronging]
Follow Me
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Where the busy crowds were thronging]" in Gems and Jewels 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
