[I walked one day along a country road]

[I walked one day along a country road]

Composer: A. H. Ackley (1922)
Published in 23 hymnals


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Audio files: MIDI

Composer: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [I walked one day along a country road]
Composer: A. H. Ackley (1922)
Meter: 10.8.10.8 with refrain
Incipit: 53343 21332 25432
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Clayton's Organ Melodies No. 1: A Collection of Beloved Hymns and Gospel Songs
    Composer/Editor Norman J. Clayton
    Published By: The Rodeheaver Company (1964) pp. 26

Piano Solo

  • Clayton Piano Melodies No. 3
    Composer/Editor Norman J. Clayton
    Published By: Norman Clayton Publishing Company (1968) pp. 16

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #6969
Text: Take Up Thy Cross (Ackley)
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
Timeless Truths #747
Text: Take Up Thy Cross and Follow Me
  • Take_Up_Thy_Cross_and_Follow_Me.pdf (PDF)

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
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TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #6969

TextAudio

Timeless Truths #747

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