SongEra: Jim Crow

Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus

Name: Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus
Description: Traditional African-American spiritual (refrain "This world's a wilderness of woe"), first published in John Wesley Work II's 1907 "Folk Songs of the…

c. 1907(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: spiritual

Traditional African-American spiritual (refrain "This world's a wilderness of woe"), first published in John Wesley Work II's 1907 "Folk Songs of the American Negro," with an early Fisk recording in 1909.

Sources & citations

1.songofamerica.netwebsite
2.hymnologyarchive.comwebsite
3.hymnary.orgwebsite
4.spirituals-database.comwebsite