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American folk song

"Hark, from the Tomb" is a hymn sung as an American folk and blues song in the United States. The words may have first been put down by English hymn writer Isaac Watts. It was sung in America by the 19th century or earlier, as a Kentucky minister described it in a memoir published 1888 as being sung by the line leader of a slave coffle in that state. It was recorded in 1936 in Smithville, Tennessee, in 1952 in Batesville, Arkansas, and in 1958 in Rogers, Arkansas.

The title of the hymn appears in a piece of dialogue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and was borrowed from there into Finnegans Wake.

References

  1. "A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Suited to the Various Occasions of Public Worship d113. Hark, from the tomb [tombs] a doleful [warning] [mournful] sound | Hymnary.org". hymnary.org. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  2. Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green, one of the founders of the Kentucky normal and theological institute... Maysville, Ky.: The Republican printing office. 1888. p. 3. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t2w37tf1b. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via HathiTrust.
  3. "Hark from the tomb the doleful sound". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. 22 November 1936. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  4. "Wolf Folklore Collection: Hark From the Tomb". home.lyon.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  5. "Hark, from the tomb; Hark, from the tomb a doleful sound". Umbra Search African American History. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  6. Atherton, James S. (1967). "To Give down the Banks and Hark from the Tomb!". James Joyce Quarterly. 4 (2): 75–83. ISSN 0021-4183. JSTOR 25486618.

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