Do Lord Remember Me Mississippi John Hurt

Do Lord Remember Me
Mississippi John Hurt

Pictures are from the Library of COngress, American Memory Project and are of various people and places in Alabama. The dates range from 1935 - 1945.

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Music

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• do lord remember me
• mississippi john hurt
• gospel
• spiritual
• folk

[supah1337B]

Found it!

[leanannsidhe]

@supah1337B So glad you found what you needed. Best of luck!

[saltwaterballads]

I love this and the images compliment it beautifully.

[leanannsidhe]

@saltwaterballads Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[stewballmax3]

I am simply in sheer awe at these images coupled with this song representative of a slice of Americana.

Thanks,

Max

[leanannsidhe]

@stewballmax3 I love this song and these pictures. Most of the pictures are from an area I grew up in and are the types I spent hours looking at in my grandparents photo albums. So it's rather nostalgic for me.

[SMNONA100]

In that plaintive wish, Do Lord..Remember Me, there is not the understanding that we live in a quantum reality that contains each of us and our experiences forever. Once to be born is life eternal, surely. We will each be "remembered," and no one forgotten, good John.

[coolhellcat18]

What more can a man ask for than to have the Lord remember him.

[fancynancyjane]

leanannsidhe, :) This was one of our favorite camp songs at our Girl Guides retreat in the Fifties.

[pixelmangler]

Thank you for the timeless MJH music.

The images are drawn from among those commissioned by the Farms Security Administration. Dororthea Lange, Arthur Rothstein & Walker Evans were among the image creators who inspired documentary photographers everywhere. Possibly it was the first government use of images; taken just to affect the way that a whole population thought about the depicted subject.

[averagenetfool]

Kind of welled up listening to this. Thanks for the upload.

[cerisewings]

Wow, this is great! I remember my grandmother singing this when I was a child.

[zendiva]

the version i sang 40 years ago included these two verses-- repeated in the same way:

1-

I GOT A HOUSE IN GLORY-LAND

THAT OUTSHINES THE SUN

&

2-

YOU WEAR THE LONG WHITE ROBE

AND I'LL WEAR THE CROWN

-love Hurt's pensive approach, vs a shouting style.

[ELVIS4221]

@BenjaminKuruga

MJH WROTE MANY OF HIS SONGS. EG, LOUIS COLLINS.

Recorded on December 21, 1928 in New York City. Hurt said, when asked about this sweet murder ballad, that he "made it up from hearing people talk. He was a great man, I know that, and he was killed by two men named Bob and Louis. I got enough of the story to write me a song."

BUT YOU ARE RIGHT, HE WAS A MIGHTY AND GREAT GUITARIST/SINGER, SOOTHING AND PROFOUND AND LIKE SO MANY OTHER GREAT ARTIST, AT HIS BEST SINGING GOSPELS

[BenjaminKuruga]

@ELVIS4221 He never really wrote his own songs. but there was something in his playing, and his singing, hes so calm and gentle. Its incredible.