Last Sunday, Alan Legg used this song to end his lesson. This Is for the ones that didn’t hear it or if you were there, want to hear again. The Story Behind Give Me Jesus According to umcdiscipleship.org, the origin of this hymn arose from a merger of traditions in American culture, “The origins of this spiritual appear to be a confluence of the white hymn tradition and the creativity and existential experiences of enslaved Africans. Numerous first stanzas appear over the decades with the refrain “Give me Jesus,” though the most commonly used initial stanza now begins “In the morning when I rise.”
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
