[Each step I take my Savior goes before me]

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[Each step I take my Savior goes before me]

Composer: W. Elmo Mercer
Published in 11 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 >

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Tune Information

Title:	[Each step I take my Savior goes before me]
Composer:	W. Elmo Mercer
Incipit:	51354 65123 32343
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	© 1953. Renewal 1981 by John T. Benson Jr. Assigned to Singspiration (div. of Zondervan Corp.)

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Each Step I Take

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Piano and Organ Duet

A Song in My Heart: Gospel Duets for Piano and Organ
Composer/Editor W. Elmo Mercer
Published By: Stamps-Baxter Music (1989) pp. 37
Double Feature: Gospel Duets for Piano and Organ
Composer/Editor Henry Slaughter
Published By: Stamps-Baxter Music (1981) pp. 6