The Sweet Days of Yore

Sometimes I sit and think about years gone by

Author: W. Elmo Mercer (1969)
Tune: [Sometimes I sit and think about years gone by]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: 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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First Line:	Sometimes I sit and think about years gone by
Title:	The Sweet Days of Yore
Author:	W. Elmo Mercer (1969)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Folks loved their neighbors and treated them right
Copyright:	© 1969, by John T. Benson, Jr.