by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983)
There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight...
Language: English
There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight and I wish that I was there, I'd journey anywhere to be with Jesus: to stroke his hair, Remind Him, O my baby dear, I'd journey anywhere to be with Jesus tonight. There's that supper in Jerusalem tonight and I could be right there. But I don't dare to journey to Jerusalem tonight. O my Jesus, you're eating in Jerusalem tonight and I wish that I was there. O my boy, take care at that supper in Jerusalem tonight.
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Text Authorship:
- by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983), appears in Beyond the Blues -- New Poems by American Negroes, first published 1962 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), "There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight and I wish that I", 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
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