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The "tongue-in-cheek" song is written from the perspective of someone who has lived a fast, loose life but is now exclaiming that they are "saved". The song is a satire of African-American religious conversion ecstasy. [2] On April 10, 1961, the recording first hit the US Billboard charts. It rose to number 17 on the R&B chart, and reached ...
In 2006, rock musician Bruce Springsteen recorded Seeger's version of Jacob's Ladder for his album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. [16] Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon recorded an a cappella version of the song for her 1987 album River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish Records). [17]
The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31:
"An Old Convention Song" "Oh, What a Savior" "Wonderful Grace of Jesus" (with Wayne Haun) "Sinner Saved by Grace" "Yesterday" "My Heart Is a Chapel" "Swinging on the Golden Gate" "Walk with Me" (with Bill Gaither) "Can He, Could He, Would He" "Mexico" "Sweet Beulah Land" (with Squire Parsons) "God Delivers Again" "He Made a Change" "Moving Up ...
A version of the refrain can be found in Washington Glass's 1854 hymn "The Sinner's Cure", (see link below) where it is in 7s.6s.7s.6s rather than the Common Meter of today's refrain. Glass attributed this hymn to himself, but like several of the hymns so attributed, it is substantially the work of another.
Paul pushed Sinner early on Monday night. The 27-year-old American fired up the New York crowd when he managed to break Sinner 13 minutes into the match, and in a stretch of winning 11 points in a ...
"If It Had Not Been For Jesus" is an American Christian hymn (or, gospel song) of unknown authorship. It was included in four hymnals published between 1905 and 1938. [1] The title is taken from the first line of the refrain. An alternative title is the first line of the first verse, namely "I Was a Deep Dyed Sinner". [2]
The song is peppered with instances of light-hearted humor and coffee puns. She sings, “Now he’s thinkin’ ‘bout me every night, oh / Is it that sweet? I guess so / Say you can’t sleep ...