Beautiful- Blue Sky Boys

Barney E. Warren 1897

Beautiful
 
Public Domain Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel Words and Music by Barney E. Warren, 1897;

ARTIST: The Blue Sky Boys recorded "Beautiful" in 1961; Barney E. Warren, 1897

CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;

DATE: 1897 Barney E. Warren; First Recorded by Garland Brothers 1928 Columbia

RECORDING INFO: Beautiful

Blue Sky Boys/  Starday 269; 1961
Garland Brothers/ Columbia 15679-D; 1928

OTHER NAMES: "Dare To Be A Daniel"

SOURCES: Meade

NOTES: The Gospel song, "Beautiful" was written by Barney E. Warren (1867-1951) in 1897.

Barney E. Warren (1867-1951) Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 20, 1867, Lew­is­ton, New York.
Died: April 21, 1951, Spring­field, Ohio. Buried: Vale Cem­e­te­ry, Spring­field, Ohio.
 
Warren was con­verted in 1884 at a re­viv­al near Bang­or, Mi­chi­gan. Two years lat­er he joined Dan­i­el Sid­ney War­ner and his evan­gel­is­tic sing­ing com­pa­ny as a bass sing­er. The group was part of the Church of God Re­form­a­tion Move­ment in An­der­son, In­di­a­na. War­ren is cred­it­ed with writ­ing over 7000 songs. His wife was Nan­nie Ki­gar, who be­longed to the sing­ing group that tra­veled the coun­try­side in the late 1800’s.

Warren was a Church of God min­is­ter as well as a song writ­er, and pas­tored sev­er­al con­gre­ga­tions. He al­so worked on pro­duc­ing song books and hymn­als for the Gos­pel Trum­pet Com­pa­ny from 1888 un­til 1940.

His most famous hymn is "He Arose." Besides "Beautiful" he also wrote: 
 
Blameless Church, The
It Is Truly Wonderful
Joy Unspeakable
O Praise the Lord!
Victory
When the Bridegroom Comes

BEAUTIFUL- Barney E. Warren, 1897
Key: Dmajor; Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6.6.4 R

Beautiful robes so white,
Beautiful land of light,
Beautiful home so bright,
Where there shall come no night;
Beautiful crown I’ll wear,
Shining with stars o’er there,
Yonder in mansions fair,
Gather us there.

CHORUS: Beautiful robes,
Beautiful land,
Beautiful home,
Beautiful band;
Beautiful crown,
Shining so fair;
Beautiful mansion bright,
Gather us there.

Beautiful thought to me,
We shall forever be
Thine in eternity,
When from this world we’re free;
Free from its toil and care,
Heavenly joys to share,
Let me cross over there,
This is my prayer.

Beautiful things on high,
Over in yonder sky,
Thus I shall leave this shore,
Counting my treasures o’er;
Where we shall never die,
Carry me, by and by,
Never to sorrow more,
Heavenly store.