I Want to Live a Little Longer Down Here

The night is coming, so I must work faster

Author: J. R. Baxter
Tune: [The night is coming, so I must work faster]
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Author: J. R. Baxter

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 Mus… Go to person page >

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First Line: The night is coming, so I must work faster
Title: I Want to Live a Little Longer Down Here
Author: J. R. Baxter
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I want to live on earth a little longer
Publication Date: 1950
Copyright: © 1950, by Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co. in "Songs for All"

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Songs for All #30

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