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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. 1928 single by Blind Willie Johnson For Television Episode by the same name, see In My Time of Dying (Supernatural). "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" Original 1928 78-rpm record Single by Blind Willie Johnson Released 1928 (1928) Recorded Dallas, Texas, December 3, 1927 Genre Gospel blues ...
A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" Jan Kochanowski's "Laments" Yusef Komunyakaa's "Sunset Threnody" in Dien Cai Dau (1988) Anna Stanisławska's Transaction, or an Account of the Life of an Orphan Girl told through Mournful Laments in the Year 1685 [8] In classical music: Thomas J. Bergersen's "Threnody for Europe"
"Steal Away" is a standard Gospel song, and is found in the hymnals of many Protestant denominations. An arrangement of the song is included in the oratorio A Child of Our Time, first performed in 1944, by the classical composer Michael Tippett (1908–98). Many recordings of the song have been made, including versions by Pat Boone [6] and Nat ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
"Prayer for the Dying" is a song by British musician Seal and Augustus Lundell "Gus" Isidore. It was released on 9 May 1994 by ZTT and Sire as the lead single from the singer's second studio album, Seal (also known as Seal II ) (1994), reaching number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 .
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (also known as Apple Tree and, in its early publications, as Christ Compared to an Apple-tree) is a poem, possibly intended for use as a carol, written in the 18th century. It has been set to music by a number of composers, including Jeremiah Ingalls (1764–1838), Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987) and John Rutter.
He used to be a nightclub manager before alcohol and drug use got the better of him. He keeps a little radio tuned to classic rock. A Jesus bumper sticker is slapped on the wall above his desk. I asked about a former resident, Keith Lillard, a 29-year-old who overdosed in October 2013.
Songwriter Ian Anderson described the song as "a blues for Jesus, about the gory, glory seekers who use his name as an excuse for a lot of unsavoury things. You know, 'Hey Dad, it's not my fault — the missionaries lied.'" [3] Sean Murphy of PopMatters wrote that, "For “Hymn 43” Anderson sets his sights on the US and in quick order sets about decimating the hypocrisy and myth-making of ...