(Give Me That) Old-Time Religion (and similar spellings) is a traditional Gospel song dating from 1873, when it was included in a list of Jubilee songs—or earlier. It has become a standard in many protestant hymnals and covered by many artists.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • (Give Me That) Old-Time Religion (and similar spellings) is a traditional Gospel song dating from 1873, when it was included in a list of Jubilee songs—or earlier. It has become a standard in many protestant hymnals and covered by many artists. Some scholars, such as Forrest Mason McCann, have asserted the possibility of an earlier stage of evolution of the song, in that "the tune may go back to English folk origins" (later dying out in the white repertoire but staying alive in the work songs of African Americans). In any event, it was by way of Charles Davis Tillman that the song had incalculable influence on the confluence of black spiritual and white gospel song traditions in forming the genre now known as southern gospel. Tillman was largely responsible for publishing the song into the repertoire of white audiences. Most common lyrics performed are a repetition of the chorus: Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It's good enough for me. The lyrics, however, as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers are: Oh! this old-time religion, This old-time religion, This old-time religion, It is good enough for me. Following Tillman's nuanced changes which accommodated the song more toward the tastes of white southern church congregations, Elmer Leon Jorgenson and other editors preferred the more-formalized first line "'Tis the old-time religion" (likewise the repeated first line of the refrain).
dbpprop:caption
  • Page from The Jubilee Singers, 1873.
dbpprop:comment
  • "Give Me That Old Time Religion")
dbpprop:composer
  • Traditional
dbpprop:form
dbpprop:language
  • English
dbpprop:originalArtist
  • Fisk Jubilee Singers
    ''(Earliest attested)''
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:title
  • Old Time Religion
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdfs:comment
  • (Give Me That) Old-Time Religion (and similar spellings) is a traditional Gospel song dating from 1873, when it was included in a list of Jubilee songs—or earlier. It has become a standard in many protestant hymnals and covered by many artists.
rdfs:label
  • Old-Time Religion
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:page
is dbpprop:aboutProperty of
is dbpprop:redirect of