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Text:We May All Be Helpers
Author:Mattie B. Shannon
Tune:[There was a captive maid of old]
Composer:Broughton Edwards

5. We May All Be Helpers

Text Information
First Line: There was a captive maid of old
Title: We May All Be Helpers
Author: Mattie B. Shannon (1933)
Refrain First Line: Oh, we may all be helpers
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Copyright: © 1933, by Tullar-Meredith Co., in "Go Forward"
Tune Information
Name: [There was a captive maid of old]
Composer: Broughton Edwards (1933)
Incipit: 33453 23114 46655
Copyright: © 1933, by Tullar-Meredith Co., in "Go Forward"



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