by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
In the mornin'
Language: English
In the mornin' when I rise, In the mornin' when I rise, In the mornin' when I rise, Give me Jesus! Give me Jesus! Give me Jesus! You can have all the world, but Give me Jesus! 'Twixt the cradle and the grave, 'Twixt the cradle and the grave, 'Twixt the cradle and the grave, Give me Jesus! Give me Jesus! Give me Jesus! You can have all the world, but Give me Jesus!
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, Negro spiritual from before 1850, communicated to Ives in 1929 by Mary Evelyn Stiles [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "In the mornin'", from the collection Eleven Songs and Two Harmonizations, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2010-05-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 74