America's Favorite Radio Songs #d18
Display Title: Standing by the river waiting for the boatman First Line: Here I stand beside death's chilly waters Author: Albert E. Brumley Date: 1947
America's Favorite Radio Songs #d18

Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri.
Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.
© The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)… Go to person page >| First Line: | Here I stand beside death's chilly waters waiting for my final call |
| Title: | Standing By the River |
| Author: | Albert E. Brumley (1943) |
| Language: | English |
| Refrain First Line: | Standing by the river waiting for the boatman |
| Publication Date: | 1943 |
| Copyright: | © 1943 by Stamps-Baxter Music & Ptg. Co. in "New Songs Supreme" |
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