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Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning

Name: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
Description: African-American spiritual whose refrain is documented in print in 1867 (collected from formerly enslaved Civil War soldiers); the titled blues-gospel…

c. 1867(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: spiritual

African-American spiritual whose refrain is documented in print in 1867 (collected from formerly enslaved Civil War soldiers); the titled blues-gospel version was first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1928.

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