The Fire Song

Top Media Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

O the judgment day is coming, What an awful day 'twill be

Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney
Tune: THE FIRE SONG
Published in 12 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Author: Baylus Benjamin McKinney

Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Wor… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	O the judgment day is coming, What an awful day 'twill be
Title:	The Fire Song
Author:	Baylus Benjamin McKinney
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, my loving brother, when the world's on fire
Publication Date:	1949
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1949.