"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.[1] 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.[2] It was recorded in 1936 in Smithville, Tennessee,[3] in 1952 in Batesville, Arkansas,[4] and in 1958 in Rogers, Arkansas.[5]
The title of the hymn appears in a piece of dialogue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and was borrowed from there into Finnegans Wake.[6]
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Hark from the tomb the doleful sound". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ "Wolf Folklore Collection: Hark From the Tomb". home.lyon.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ "Hark, from the tomb; Hark, from the tomb a doleful sound". Umbra Search African American History. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ Atherton, James S. (1967). "To Give down the Banks and Hark from the Tomb!". James Joyce Quarterly. 4 (2): 75–83. ISSN 0021-4183.
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