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The melody and some elements of the lyrics were adapted for the union song, "Miner's Lifeguard," with a refrain about mine operators who cheated workers out of honest weight, "Union miners, work together; Heed no operator's tale; Keep your hand upon the dollar, and your eye upon the scale."
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describes "When I Get to the End of the Way" as "A popular song with older folk" (like some hymnals which carry it, McCann indicates the song by its first line, "The sands have been washed"). The ability of Tillman's work to appeal outside the time and context of
412:. The lyrics were written by a man by the name of Milan Williams, who was an evangelist in the late 1800s. He collaborated with Tillman and reflected his desire to write a song with these lyrics, and apparently the song was completed within a half hour. 167:" and then quickly scrawled the words and the rudiments of the tune on a scrap of paper. Tillman published the work to his largely white church market in 1891. Tillman was not first in publishing the song, an honor which goes to G. D. Pike in his 1873 456:
where the tune name is indicated as THE END OF THE WAY; in the "Preface" (pp. iii-viii) editors Albert E. Winstanley & Graham A. Fisher emphasize that requests from churches which had previously used Elmer Leon Jorgenson's
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Besides "The Old Time Religion" and "Life’s Railway to Heaven" the Cyber Hymnal lists other Tillman works, including "My Mother's Bible" as well as "Ready" and "When I Get to the End of the Way" ("The sands have been washed").
461:(where the song appears) were a major consideration in which works to include. Jorgenson's hymnal, which offered traditional hymns and gospel songs, had spread "The Sands Have Been Washed" internationally throughout the 913:(Abilene, Texas) for 2006 October 16 and 2007 February 13 respectively. A Welsh improvisation on "Life's Railway to Heaven" preserves the Snow-Abbey-Tillman lyrics but matches them to the "Welsh National Anthem"; see 714:(Nashville: Broadman Press, 1964), p. 423. Reynolds gives the date of the tent meeting as 1891, but it is elsewhere widely indicated by others as 1889; the confusion may be that Tillman published it in his 509:
nuance. The combination is so hauntingly striking and memorable that the tune itself has been widely recognized as POOR WAYFARING STRANGER or just WAYFARING STRANGER ever since Tillman spread it beyond the
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Hymnal Committee decided to name the tune TILLMAN. Reynolds disputed the author's identity as A. C. Palmer, but other researchers have accepted the author's identity as Asa C. Palmer (1845–1882).
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In 1890, Tillman set to music a hymn by Baptist preacher M.E. Abbey, "Life's Railway to Heaven." (Abbey had drawn from an earlier poem, "The Faithful Engineer," by William Shakespeare Hays.)
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such as Elmer Leon Jorgenson formalized the first line as "'Tis the old-time religion" (likewise the repeated first line of the refrain) to accommodate the song more to the tastes of
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And the following week, on 2012-01-21, Keillor himself reprised with a parody beginning "Life Is like a Winter Highway" caricaturing cold weather in Minnesota.
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with which Jorgenson's hymnal was associated. "When I Get to the End of the Way" ("The sands have been washed") has also been popularized internationally by
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preacher James Lafayette Tillman and Mary (Davis) Tillman, for 14 years prior to 1887 he painted houses, sold sheet music for a company in
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for the musical scores used in public school programs. Tillman broke into radio early and performed regularly on Atlanta's radio station
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radio network put him on the air for an hour featuring his singing while his daughter accompanied on the piano. He also recorded on
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Notwithstanding the sentimentality, "My Mother's Bible" emerged in a number of generally stately hymnals, including the
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items lending broader credibility to the inclusion of the selections which formed so much of the basis for
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Wayne W. Daniel, "Charlie D. Tillman: Christ Was the Conductor on His 'Life's Railway to Heaven'" in
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Tillman was so recognized in his own time that, at the 1893 World Convention of Christian Workers in
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group for a singing meeting on a Sunday afternoon. It was then that young Tillman first heard the
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songbook of 1891. It has been frequently analyzed, arranged, and recorded, its artists including
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Also known by its first line "Life is like a mountain railroad", the song has been recorded by
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as the title, encouraged "Wayfaring Stranger" as his nickname, and titled his autobiography
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Words by M.B. Williams, music by Charles Davis Tillman, copyright 1893 by Tillman.
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For the various phrases which have been employed for the first line, see the "
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later dubbed his voice into that version to form a duet. On January 14, 2012,
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Including a special arrangement, intended for acappella congregation use, by
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and establishing his own church-related music publishing company in Atlanta.
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is evident in the inclusion of "The Sands Have Been Washed" in the British
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Additionally, Tillman was responsible for publicizing the lyrics of
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transcription of Wayfaring Stranger on TheoreticallyCorrect.com.
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chose the song as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
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In 1889 Tillman was assisting his father with a tent meeting in
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Ives was so fond of the song that he recorded two albums with
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which had already established the background of the song in
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Number Two Edition (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1937O), Item 570.
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and was among the first individuals to be inducted into the
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music. For American football player Charles Tillman, see
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Wayne W. Daniel, "Charlie D. Tillman (1861-1943)" in
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in Atlanta in 1903. The British lyrics are in five
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Hymns & History: An Annotated Survey of Sources
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and site tabs. Note its association with songbooks.
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The elder Tillman lent the tent to an 1079:(Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 1997), p. 592, 138: 1407:Works by or about Charles Davis Tillman 926: 623:Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame 613:Tillman, who spent most of his life in 495:Revival Hymns & Plantation Melodies 1531:Singer-songwriters from North Carolina 1486:American performers of Christian music 1418: 1381:Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 58 1288:New Georgia Encyclopedia: Arts Section 946: 578:, he served as songleader in place of 305:performed a 4/4 rendition as guest on 294:recorded it that way in 1959 as a solo 1097:Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 976:"Talking Union and Other Union Songs" 893:"Reader Offers Willie Fitting Lyrics" 866: 669:For a description of Wizard Oil, see 19:This article is about the pioneer of 845: 729:(Nashville: Lee And Shepard, 1873), 415: 1456:American country singer-songwriters 13: 1481:American music publishers (people) 1436:19th-century American male singers 1145:"When I Get to the End of the Way" 1093:"When I Get to the End of the Way" 846:Hays, William Shakespeare (1886). 440:"When I Get to the End of the Way" 14: 1582: 1400: 1266:The song is listed as well as by 960:. American Cowboy. Archived from 385:"My Mother's Bible" is among the 1476:American male singer-songwriters 927:Keillor, Garrison (2012-01-14). 829:"Charlie D. Tillman (1861-1943)" 481:"I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger" 364:"They Were in an Upper Chamber") 178:the song into the repertoire of 1566:Singer-songwriters from Alabama 1561:19th-century American composers 1373: 1355: 1330: 1301: 1279: 1260: 1239: 1215: 1199: 1178: 1155: 1136: 1127: 1110: 1070: 1045: 1029: 1016: 1003: 994: 982: 968: 920: 885: 860: 839: 821: 487:"I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger 182:, whose music was derived from 1541:People from Tallassee, Alabama 1471:American Christian hymnwriters 1268:the Negro Spirituals web site. 808: 772: 748: 735: 723: 704: 683: 663: 646: 348: 1: 1536:Singer-songwriters from Texas 1446:19th-century American writers 1441:19th-century American singers 849:Will S. 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Alvin York
Academy Award

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