[Do you need a friend to keep you till the end]

[Do you need a friend to keep you till the end]

Composer: W. Elmo Mercer
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: W. Elmo Mercer

William Elmo Mercer wrote more than 1,600 songs and worked extensively as a music arranger. Arguably his best known song is “Each Step I Take." Mercer worked for the John T. Benson company from 1951 to 1981 as a music editor. He also consulted for LifeWay, Lorenz, Brentwood, and other music companies. He and his wife Marcia traveled as singing evangelists for three decades and he served as the music minister for Scottsboro First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Monty Lynn, from "William Elmo Mercer," Southern Gospel History, https://www.sghistory.com/ Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Do you need a friend to keep you till the end]
Composer: W. Elmo Mercer
Incipit: 34453 32164 23456
Key: C Major
Copyright: © 1963 by John R. Benson, Jr.

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The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) #172

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