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Text: | Were you there when they crucified my Lord? |
Tune: | WERE YOU THERE |
Arranger: | Francis Brotherton Westbrook, 1903-75 |
1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
were you there when they crucified my Lord?
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
were you there when they crucified my Lord?
2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
3 Were you there when they pierced him in the side?
were you there when they pierced him in the side?
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
were you there when they pierced him in the side?
4 Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
were you there when the sun refused to shine??
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
were you there when the sun refused to shine?b?
5 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
6 Were you there when he rose from out the tomb?
were you there when he rose from out the tomb?
O sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble;
were you there when he rose from out the tomb?
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Were you there when they crucified my Lord? |
Meter: | 10 10.14 10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Good Friday; Jesus Christ: Passion and Cross; Saints Days and Holy Days: St Mary Magdalene |
Source: | Based on an African-American spiritual |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WERE YOU THERE |
Arranger: | Francis Brotherton Westbrook, 1903-75 |
Meter: | 10 10.14 10 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | African-American spiritual |
Copyright: | Arrangement by permission of Oxford University Press |