Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild

DESCRIPTION: A child's prayer to Jesus to be brought to Jesus. The singer would have a "loving mind" and "fulfil ... my heavenly Father's will"
AUTHOR: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) (source: _Methodist Hymn-Book_)
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Ira D. Sankey, _Sacred Songs and Solos: Twelve Hundred Hymns_ (London: Marshall Morgan & Scott Ltd, 1921? ("Digitized by Internet Archive")) #1149, ("Gentle Jesus meek and mild") (1 text)
Roud #29816
RECORDINGS:
Henry Williams, Henry Thomas, Margaret Wright, Edna Wright, "Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [113 words]: Also see The Methodist Hymn-Book (London: The Methodist Publishing House, 1954), #842 p. 321, ("Gentle Jesus, meek and mild") (1 text).
The WITrinidadVillage02 Spiritual Baptist hymn is the five verse Sankey version, in that text's sequence, rather than -- for example -- The Methodist Hymn-Book's eight verses with the five sung in a different sequence. Donald R. Hill and Lise Winer, liner notes for WITrinidadVillage02 have this as "Sankey into Shout." After the second verse the singers of words have to compete more and more with singers, in tune, of "bam, bam,..." After the fifth verse the hymn continues without words and some "bams" and "bums" give way to "whoops." - BS
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