1885–1963

Introduction

Born: Oc­to­ber 24, 1885, Me­ri­we­ther Coun­ty, Georg­ia.

Died: Oc­to­ber 24, 1963, Cullman County, Alabama.

Buried: Mount Hope Ce­me­te­ry, Crane Hill, Ala­ba­ma.

Pseudonym: Os­car J. Schwab.

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Biography

Oliver was the son of Phil­lip Aqul­lia (or Aquil­la) Coop­er and Ra­chel Fran­ces Wright, and hus­band of Cam­mel­la W. Coop­er.

He per­formed with a ra­dio quar­tet in Bir­ming­ham, Ala­ba­ma, for se­ver­al years, and is said to have writ­ten about 1,500 songs.

For ma­ny years he was pre­si­dent of the Cull­man Coun­ty, Ala­ba­ma Sing­ing Con­ven­tion, and was al­so on the fa­cul­ty at Hart­ford Mu­sic­al In­sti­tute.

He was in­duct­ed in­to the Gos­pel Mu­sic As­so­cia­tion Hall of Fame in 1992.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Above This World of Sin
  2. After This Wea­ry Life Comes to an End
  3. All Alone Among the Sha­dows
  4. All Alone My Soul Was Lost
  5. All the Saved of Ev­ery Land
  6. As Deep as the Sin Stain
  7. As Through Life I Tra­vel Oft­en Trou­bles Come Along
  8. As We Go Along Down the Road of Life
  9. As You Jour­ney on the Gos­pel High­way
  10. As You Tra­vel Down Life’s Path­way
  11. As You Tra­vel Each Day Down the Long Roc­ky Road
  12. As You Tra­vel on the Gos­pel High­way
  13. Back from the Storm and Cold
  14. Blessed Je­sus, I’m Care­less
  15. Blessed Je­sus, I’m Help­less
  16. Blessed Je­sus in His Good­ness
  17. Bowing Low at Thy Feet
  18. Brother, if You Are Sad, God’s Love
  19. Changes of This Chang­ing World, The
  20. Daily I Press Along
  21. Daily I Was Drift­ing Down­ward
  22. Death Can­not Alarm Me
  23. Delighting Ev­er in My Bless­ed Sav­ior’s Love
  24. Don’t You Love Dad­dy, Too?
  25. Down in My Heart I’m Al­ways Re­joic­ing
  26. Down in My Heart, I Al­ways Have a Hap­py Song
  27. Each Time That I Read the Sto­ry of Old
  28. Every Chris­tian Ought to Do Some­thing for Je­sus
  29. Every Man Must Have a Home
  30. Every Night and Ev­ery Day
  31. Every Sing­le Doubt Will Roll Away
  32. Ever Keep the Joy Bells Ring­ing
  33. Ever Re­joic­ing, and Voic­ing
  34. Far Above the Trou­bles of Earth
  35. Fight On, O Soul
  36. Filled with Sweet Peace Di­vine
  37. For This Life with All
  38. From the Fields of Gold­en Grain
  39. From the Sha­dows of Sin­land
  40. Get a Little Clos­er to Je­sus
  41. Give Me Cour­age, Lord, to Stand for Thee
  42. Gloomy Clouds of Doubt and Sin
  43. Glory Bells of Hea­ven Soon
  44. Glory Un­end­ing Ev­er Will Be
  45. God’s Great Love Is Shin­ing Like Sunbeams
  46. God’s Love Is Great and Great Is He
  47. God in Great Kind­ness Looked on My Blind­ness
  48. God Is Al­ways Near, Just to Bless and Cheer
  49. God Saw Our Plight, We Were Lost
  50. God Will Nev­er Leave Me
  51. Going on Re­joic­ing, Hap­py Prais­es Ev­er Voic­ing
  52. Go with a Song and Tell the Sto­ry
  53. Go Ye into All the World, Thus
  54. God I Serve Is Great In­deed, The
  55. Grace of God, So Un­re­serv­ed­ly Giv­en
  56. Hallelujah, Hal­le­lu­jah, Je­sus Save
  57. Happy in Je­sus I Go Sing­ing
  58. Hear My Pray­er, Lord Je­sus
  59. Heaven Will Sure­ly Be Worth It All
  60. Heavy Bur­dens You’ve Car­ried
  61. Here All I Have I’m Free­ly Giv­ing
  62. Hide Me in the Rock of Ages
  63. Holy, Ho­ly Be Thy Name
  64. Homeland of Glo­ry, Lov­ely and Fair, A
  65. How Can I For­get When I First Met
  66. How Of­ten a Vi­sion of Hea­ven
  67. How When but a Babe They Laid Him
  68. I Am Liv­ing on the Glo­ry Side
  69. If Days Are Dark and Full of Dread
  70. If in Thy Life from Day to Day
  71. If in Times of Dan­ger and Sor­row
  72. If the Life That You Live Is All Wrong
  73. If You Are Un­de­cid­ed Whe­ther to Go or Stay
  74. If You Know the Match­less Sto­ry
  75. I’ll Al­ways Cling to Christ My King
  76. I’m Glad That Je­sus Came into My Brok­en Heart
  77. I’m Head­ed Up the Glo­ry Line
  78. I’m Just a Pil­grim Here Be­low
  79. I’m Rea­dy O Lord, to An­swer Thy Call
  80. I’m Sing­ing Glo­ry Along the Way
  81. In Pray­er
  82. Into Ev­ery Land with the Mess­age
  83. Into My Heart a New Fee­ling Came
  84. Into the Sha­dows and in­to the Night
  85. In a Land of Stran­gers, Fac­ing Ma­ny Dan­gers
  86. In My Fond­est Day Dreams
  87. In These Sad Days of War and Strife
  88. In the Dark­ness I Wan­dered Far Away
  89. In the Depths of My Soul I’ve a Sweet
  90. In the Depths of My Spi­rit I Have Won­der­ful
  91. In the Gar­dens of Glo­ry Near the Pal­ace of Gold
  92. In the Glo­ry Way Glad­ly
  93. In the Hour of Deep­est Sor­row
  94. In the Hour of Great­est Tri­al
  95. In the Lane or the Street
  96. In the Place of Sad­ness Je­sus Ev­er Gives
  97. In the Sha­dows of the Sin­land
  98. In the Time of Deep­est Trou­ble
  99. In This Chang­ing World Ma­ny Chang­es Come
  100. In Thy Keep­ing, Ho­ly Fa­ther
  101. It Seems That Men Are Lost in Strife
  102. It’s Just Like Hea­ven
  103. I’ve Dreamed So Ma­ny Times
  104. I’ve Found Ev­er­last­ing Glo­ry
  105. I’ve Heard About a Won­der­ful Coun­try
  106. I’ve Left All the Sor­row and Dark­ness of the Night
  107. I’ve Left the Strife of the Low­lands
  108. I’ve Sur­rend­ered Now, Com­plete­ly
  109. I’ve Turned from the Wrong
  110. I Am Hap­py Day and Night
  111. I Am Pass­ing Along Ov­er Life’s
  112. I Am Walk­ing and Talk­ing with My Dear Sav­ior
  113. I Came to the Sav­ior and Bowed at His Feet
  114. I Care Not What Church You Be­long To
  115. I Feel Like Sing­ing a Song as I Tra­vel Along
  116. I Find Com­mun­ion Pure and Sweet
  117. I Have a Friend That You Should Meet
  118. I Have a Friend Whose Love for Me
  119. I Have Been Re­deemed from Sin’s Dark Fet­ters
  120. I Long Have Tried to Serve Thee, Lord
  121. I Love the Sto­ry of Un­end­ing Glo­ry
  122. I Love to Sing the Sweet Old Sto­ry
  123. I Want My Life to Show the World
  124. I Was a Lost Sin­ner Far Out in the Night
  125. I Was a Stran­ger in a Lone­ly Land
  126. I Was in a Land of Stran­gers
  127. I Was Liv­ing in Des­pair
  128. I Was Lost in Sin, I Was All Un­done
  129. I Was Once in Egypt’s Bond­age
  130. I Will Fol­low Thee, My Lord
  131. I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes to the Hills
  132. I Will Not Grieve Be­cause of Change
  133. It’s Just Like Hea­ven
  134. Jehovah’s Ev­er­last­ing Arms Around Me Now
  135. Jesus Found Me Alone
  136. Jesus Found Me One Day in the Dark­ness As­tray
  137. Jesus I’m Care­less, I’m Lost and Un­done
  138. Jesus Is the World’s Great Shep­herd
  139. Jesus, Je­sus How I Love Thee
  140. Jesus Leads Me on to My Hap­py Home
  141. Jesus Needs Work­ers All Over the Land
  142. Jesus Needs Work­ers Will­ing
  143. Jesus Saves by Love Di­vine
  144. Jesus Way Is the Way to Walk, The
  145. Jesus Wrought in My Soul Full Sal­va­tion
  146. Judgment Is Com­ing to One and All
  147. Just to Live Closer to Je­sus
  148. Keep the Lord Je­sus Walk­ing Be­side
  149. Lead Me on, Dear Sav­ior
  150. Lest Old Sa­tan by His Pow­er
  151. Let Je­ho­vah Walk Be­side You
  152. Let Me Live Closer, O Je­sus, to Thee
  153. Let No Bur­den Cast You Down
  154. Let Us Go On­ward, Up­ward Ev­er
  155. Life Is Filled with Swift Tran­si­tions
  156. Lift Your Voice in Sing­ing
  157. Lonely and Help­less Lost Child I Fol­lowed, A
  158. Lonely and We­ary I’d Drift­ed
  159. Long I Had Walked in the Way of Des­pair
  160. Look Around Dear Friend, There’s Work to Do
  161. Looking for a Ci­ty
  162. Lord, I’m Seek­ing a Home in a Ci­ty Above
  163. Lord, I Hear Thee Call­ing Me
  164. Lord Is My Shep­herd, Each Day He Is Guid­ing, The
  165. Lord Je­sus, Hear My Plead­ing and Com­fort
  166. Love Di­vine Is Mine
  167. Many Are the Times of Sor­row
  168. Many Wea­ry Days in For­bid­den Ways
  169. Marching Through This Life
  170. Men of Valor, Men of Cour­age
  171. Men To­day Are Vain and Haughty
  172. Mercy Un­fail­ing God Will Be­stow
  173. My Dad­dy Has Gone on and Left Me
  174. My Fa­ther’s Own Son
  175. My Je­sus Knows Just What I Need
  176. My Soul Is Glad In­deed
  177. No Crip­ples in the Glo­ry Land
  178. Not by Thy Works Alone
  179. No Mat­ter How Far in­to Sin You’ve Strayed
  180. Often We Shrink with Fear
  181. Once I Was Lost in Sin and Evil Rules With­in
  182. Only One Plan to Save Lost Man
  183. On Moun­tains High and Cold and Wild
  184. On Moun­tains Wild So Far As­tray
  185. On the Way Re­joic­ing, Hap­py Prais­es Voic­ing
  186. Our Days on Earth Will Soon
  187. Out in the Cold, Far from the Fold
  188. Out in the Dark­ness I Sad­ly
  189. Out of Bond­age and In­to Glo­ry
  190. Out on Life’s Ocean
  191. Over Yon­der in That Bless­ed Land of Light
  192. O Brother, Get Ready for That Sing­ing Day
  193. O, Grace of Je­sus What a Trea­sure
  194. O Hea­venly Fa­ther Friend Di­vine
  195. O I Had a Lit­tle Talk with My Dear Je­sus
  196. O I Must Toil for Je­sus
  197. O What a Won­der­ful Re­joic­ing at the Meet­ing
  198. People Ask Me Why I Serve the Lord
  199. Reach Down Thy Hand, Dear Lord
  200. Rejoicing Be­cause I Am a Child
  201. Roses Are Bloom­ing on the Road
  202. Rough Is the Road, Its Bur­dens Great
  203. Salvation’s Plan Is Plain and True
  204. Savior Found Me One Day, The
  205. See the Rip­ened Grain Is Fall­ing
  206. Sing Aloud Ye Faith­ful and Joy­ful­ly Praise
  207. Sinner, Turn Away from Your Sin To­day
  208. Sinner, Why Drift Along All Alone
  209. Sinner, Why Wan­der Far As­tray
  210. Sin’s Mur­ky Clouds Are Hang­ing Low
  211. Sin Clouds Are Ga­ther­ing Fast
  212. Softly Falls the Length­en­ing Sha­dows
  213. Somebody Loves Me, Some­bo­dy Keeps Me
  214. Sometimes I’m Prone to Fal­ter
  215. Sometimes the Way Seems Rug­ged and Long
  216. Some Glad Morn­ing at Last
  217. Some Hap­py Day in Glo­ry Land
  218. Some Peo­ple Tell Us
  219. So Far Away from the Home­land
  220. So Ma­ny Poor Souls
  221. Storm Winds Are Blow­ing
  222. Such a Won­der­ful Friend Is He
  223. Sweetest of Peace Now Is Fill­ing My Soul
  224. There’s Al­ways a Joy in My Heart When I Sing
  225. There’s a Man­sion Built Above for You and Me
  226. There’s a Place Down Below Where It’s All Grief
  227. There’s a Riv­er, They Call It the Riv­er of Death
  228. There’s Room Up in Hea­ven
  229. There Are Days of Glad­ness Free
  230. There Are Ma­ny Peo­ple in This Land of Ours
  231. There Are Some Who Read the Bi­ble
  232. There Is but One Sal­va­tion Plan
  233. There Is Joy in Giv­ing True Service
  234. There Is Joy in Know­ing That by Faith
  235. They Nailed My Sav­ior to the Cross
  236. Thickening Shades of Night Fall Around You
  237. Though Some­times We’re Hin­dered by Doubts
  238. Though Storms of Life Around Are Sweep­ing
  239. Though the Storms of Life Are Mad­ly Rag­ing
  240. Through the Dark­est Sha­dows of the Night
  241. Through the Wait­ing, Through the Hat­ing
  242. Up in the Glo­ry Land, Safe on the Gold­en Strand
  243. Way to Hea­ven Is Plain, The
  244. We Are Bu­sy in the Har­vest
  245. We Are Pas­sing on the Way
  246. We Met as Ca­su­al Stran­gers
  247. When Clouds Are Hang­ing Dark and Low
  248. When First We Met as Stran­gers
  249. When I Cross o’er the Great Di­vide
  250. When in the Time of Sor­row
  251. When It Seems That Faith Is Fail­ing
  252. When I First Ac­cept­ed Je­sus
  253. When My Work Is Ended in the Vine­yard Be­low
  254. When Our Sing­ing Here Is End­ed
  255. When Sin and Sor­row Ga­ther
  256. When the An­gels in Hea­ven March
  257. When the Clouds Are Hang­ing Darkly Ov­er­head
  258. When the Days Seem So Blue
  259. When the Mad Storms of Strife
  260. When the Storms of Life Are Sweep­ing
  261. When the Storms Ov­er­take and When Loved Ones
  262. When the Wild Winds of Trou­ble
  263. When Time on Earth Shall Be No More
  264. When You Feel Dis­cour­aged and the Way
  265. Where Can I Go in the Time of My Grief?
  266. While I Am Toil­ing, Lord, for Thee
  267. Who Is the Sin­ner’s Best Friend
  268. Will My Mo­ther Know Me Yon­der?
  269. With My Small Hand Rest­ing Sweet­ly
  270. With Up­lift­ed Voice Night and Day I Now Re­joice
  271. Worth of Je­sus’ Love to Me, The

Music

  1. Ashdod

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