SongEra: Jim Crow

Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

Name: Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
Description: Composed 20th-century gospel song with contested authorship — not an antebellum spiritual — first documented in a 1942 Library of Congress recording by…

c. 1942(Approximate date)· Attributed Claude Ely (disputed) (artist)

Artist: Attributed Claude Ely (disputed)
Genre: gospel

Composed 20th-century gospel song with contested authorship — not an antebellum spiritual — first documented in a 1942 Library of Congress recording by Bozie Sturdivant.

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