Hymns is a 1965 Gospel album by American country singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

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This was Lynn's first Gospel album of her career. The album was a pick of 12 Gospel and Inspirational music songs that were either popular over the years or were written by Lynn herself for this album. Well known Christian songs such as "How Great Thou Art" and "In the Sweet By and By" appear in this album. The album peaked at #10 on the Top Country Albums chart. Over the years, the album has been considered a rarity to find. It was reissued on CD by King Records

King Records (USA)

King Records is an American record label, started in 1943 by Syd Nathan and originally headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.-History:At first it specialized in country music, at the time still known as "hillbilly music." King advertised, "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a...

 in 1998.

"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" was covered by Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...

 & the Cox Family

The Cox Family

The Cox Family is an American Bluegrass family group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.-Members:*Evelyn Cox - guitar, vocals*Lynn Cox - - bass, vocals...

 on their 1994 album I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow is an album by American violinist/singer Alison Krauss & the Cox Family, released in 1994.At the Grammy Awards of 1995 I Know Who Holds Tomorrow won the Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album....

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Track listing

1. "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" - 2:20 (Lynn)
2. "The Third Man" - 3:17 (Don Helms, Teddy Wilburn)
3. "How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art may refer to:*"How Great Thou Art" by Carl Boberg*How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art, an album by The Statler Brothers...
   
   " - 2:55 (Stuart K. Hine)
4. "Where No One Stands Alone" - 2:45 (Mosie Lister)
5. "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
   If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
   "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again" is a popular gospel song written by John Whitfield "Whit" Vaughan , as a tribute to his own mother, Clara Beady Burgess-Vaughan. The words are based on a text by James Rowe, an English settler living in Georgia during the early twentieth century. A 1934...
   
   " - 2:16 (Traditional)
6. "In the Sweet By and By" - 2:22 (Joseph Philbrick Webster, Sanford Fillmore Bennett)
7. "Old Camp Meetin' Time" - 2:04 (Traditional)
8. "Where They Ring Those Golden Bells" - 3:07 (Traditional)
9. "Peace in the Valley
   Peace in the Valley
   "Peace in the Valley" is a 1937 song written by Thomas A. Dorsey, originally for Mahalia Jackson. The song became a hit in 1951 for Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys, reaching No. 7 on the Country & Western Best Seller chart. It was among the first gospel recordings to sell one million copies...
   
   " - 2:53 (Thomas A. Dorsey
   Thomas A. Dorsey
   Thomas Andrew Dorsey was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys." Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.As formulated by Dorsey,...
   
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10. "When I Hear My Children Pray" - 2:34 (Waldrop)
11. "I'd Rather Have Jesus" - 2:38 (Traditional)
12. "When I Learned to Pray" - 2:44 (Lynn)

Chart positions

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1965	Country Albums	10
1981	Pop Albums	N/A