Tindley is known as one of the “found­ing fa­thers of Amer­i­can Gos­pel mu­sic.” The son of slaves, he taught him­self to read and write at age 17. He was a driv­en young man, work­ing as a jan­i­tor while at­tend­ing night school, and earn­ing his di­vin­i­ty de­gree through a cor­re­spond­ence course. In 1902, he be­came pas­tor of the Cal­va­ry Meth­o­dist Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­vania, the church where he had ear­li­er been the jan­i­tor. At the time of Tindley’s death, his church had 12,500 mem­bers. The Tind­ley Tem­ple Unit­ed Meth­o­dist Church in Phil­a­del­phia was named af­ter him. Tind­ley’s I’ll Over­come Some Day was the ba­sis for the Amer­i­can ci­vil rights an­them We Shall Over­come, pop­u­lar­ized in the 1960’s.

Lyrics

1. After a While
2. Better Day Is Coming By and By, A
3. Better Home, A
4. Christ is the Way
5. Consolation
6. From Youth to Old Age
7. Go Talk with Je­sus about It
8. Go Wash in the Beau­ti­ful Stream
9. Have You Crossed the Line?
10. Heaven’s Christ­mas Tree
11. Here Am I, Send Me
12. He’ll Take You Through
13. Heavenly Union, The
14. Home of the Soul, The
15. I Be­lieve It
16. I Have Found at Last a Sav­ior
17. I Know the Lord Will Make a Way
18. I Will Go, if My Fa­ther Holds My Hand
19. I’ll Be Sa­ti­sfied
20. I’ll Over­come Some Day
21. I’m Go­ing to Die with My Staff in My Hand
22. I’m Go­ing There
23. In Me (© 1923)
24. It May Be the Best for Me
25. Joyous An­ti­ci­pa­tion
26. Just Today (© 1923)
27. Leave It There
28. Let Jesus Fix It for You (© 1923)
29. Lord, I’ve Tried
30. Lord Will Make the Way, The
31. Mountain Top Dwell­ing
32. My Se­cret of Joy
33. Nothing Be­tween
34. Our Suf­fer­ing Jesus
35. Pilgrim’s Song, The
36. Saved and Sa­tis­fied (© 1923)
37. Some Day
38. Someone Is Wait­ing for Me
39. Spiritual Spring Time
40. Stand by Me
41. Storm Is Pass­ing Over, The
42. Stranger Cut the Rope, A
43. Today
44. We’ll Un­der­stand It Better By and By
45. What Are They Do­ing in Heav­en?
46. Will You Be There?
47. Your Faith Has Saved You