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SDAH 305
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise,
Give me Jesus.
Text
1
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
Refrain
Give me Jesus.
Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus.
You can have all this world,
Just give me Jesus.
2
Dark mid-night was my cry,
Dark mid-night was my cry,
Dark midnight was my cry,
Give me Jesus.
3
Just about the break of day,
Just about the break of day,
Just about the break of day,
Give me Jesus.
4
Oh, when I come to die,
Oh, when I come to die,
Oh, when I come to die,
Give me Jesus.
Hymn Info
Biblical Information
(r) Matt 16:26
Text Source
American Negro Spiritual
Copyright Information
Arrangement copyright 1984 by Alma Blackmon
Metrical Number
7.7.7.4.Ref.
Arranger
Alma Blackmon, 1984 (1921-2009
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In the Morning When I Rise
The original title commonly used for this hymn are actually the first few words of the initial stanza — ‘In the morning when I rise.’ According to Odum and Johnson (1925), many slave songs contained the metaphor of ‘morning’ and that as a rule, ‘morning signified to the Negro the time for going to heaven and for the resurrection.’…
Needless to say, ‘Give Me Jesus,’ including other songs, was rejected by the editors of the Slave Songs, because they felt it was a ‘fake’ spiritual.
This basically indicates that the songs sounded too similar with ‘white hymns’ and that while it involves the spirit and experiences of enslaved Africans, the style of the hymn was like that found in many white American hymn books…
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers were the first to carry Negro spirituals to the world after the Civil War. These 12 dedicated musicians made several successful concert tours, singing the songs of the freed people and raising money for Fisk University. The goal of their first tour was to raise the then huge amount of $20,000 for their school, which was founded in 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee, for Blacks. They sang it in concert halls and churches in Europe an dAmerica; their audiences included the president of the United States and the queen of England. In three years they raised $100000! In the year 1880 a book about their experiences was published by J.B.T. Marsh entitled The Story of the Jubilee Singers, With Their Songs. It included 128 spirituals and an account of the singer’s most recent trip to Germany. (This was a revision of two previous volumes.)
“Give Me Jesus” was one of the numbers in the book. (See the reproduction of a slightly different melody line, on page 332.) It has the same message as the old gospel song, “Take the World, but Give Me Jesus,” SDAH 329. The refrain echoes the words of Jesus: “What is man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Matt. 16:26).
The musical arrangement is by Alma Blackmon (1921- ;see SDAH 69), who also arranged SDAH 138, “Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow,” and SDAH 580, “This Little Light of Mine.”
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