![]() This little light o’ mine, I'm goin’ let it shine She sang the following lyrics, taught to her by her grandmother: This song and others were sung by a black woman, Doris McMurray who was imprisoned at Thomas Goree Unit in Texas and said that she learned the song from her grandmother in Waco. In 1939 Lomax returned to Texas with Ruby Lomax during their Southern States Recording Trip and recorded the song again. In June 1934 John Lomax and Alan Lomax recorded the earliest known recording of the song when they recorded Jim Boyd of Jacksonville, Texas singing at the State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. In 1933, the song was mentioned in newspapers as being sung by a chorus at an African Methodist Episcopal conference in Helena, Montana and then various other churches around the United States later that year. In 1932, the song was mentioned in a 1932 Missouri newspaper. ![]() In 1931, the song is mentioned in a Los Angeles newspaper as " Deaconess Anderson's song". ![]() ![]() The origin of the song is unclear, but the phrase "This little light of mine" appears published in poetry by 1925 by Edward G.
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