Tag: African-American Spiritual

African-American Spiritual

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
(Were you there?)

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
(Were you there?)

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
(Were you there?)

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? 

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
(Were you there?)

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
(Were you there?)

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? 

Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
(Were you there?)

Spiritual

Were You There was likely composed by enslaved African-Americans in the 19th century. It was first published in William Eleazar Barton‘s  1899 Old Plantation Hymns.