John Yates
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John Yates was a nineteenth-century gospel poet credited with the lyric to “The Model Church,” the much-recorded country and bluegrass-gospel song set to a William J. Kirkpatrick tune.
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- Credited as the author of the lyric to “The Model Church.”
- William J. Kirkpatrick set the lyric to its familiar tune.
- The song has been recorded by the Stanley Brothers, the Cox Family, the Chuck Wagon Gang, and many other country and bluegrass-gospel acts.