"Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" |
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"Were you there when they crucified my Lord?"
An old African American spiritual that predates the Civil War, perhaps dating from the late 18th Century. First known publishing in William Barton's Old Plantation Hymns (1899). Possible earlier roots in a spiritual known in Tennessee, mid to late 18th Century as "Have you heard how they crucified my Lord?" Public Domain. |