Good Friday
Were You There?
- Words:
- African-American Spiritual, before 1899.
- Music:
- 'Were You There' African-American Spiritual, before 1899.
- Setting:
- attr. Charles Winfred Douglas, 1940.
- Metre:
- 10 10 14 10
- 1Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
- 2Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?
- 3Were you there when they pierced Him in the side?Were you there when they pierced Him in the side?Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they pierced Him in the side?
- 4Were you there when the sun refused to shine?Were you there when the sun refused to shine?Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
- 5Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
- 6Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 293 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Were You There, is in 258 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.