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Thread #120373   Message #2617322
Posted By: Mescal
23-Apr-09 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson)
Subject: Dark Was the Night
Does anyone have lyrics for "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" -- which of course Willie Johnson recorded as a moan in the late 1920s? I understand it was a Wesleyan hymn from the late 1700s. Are those lyrics still around, in hymn books maybe? Also I've seen this title on an old recording, which I never heard, maybe a southern gospel or black gospel record.