{"slug": "were-you-there", "title": "Were You There", "first_line": "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?", "author_source": "African-American spiritual", "foot": "irregular", "meter": {"pattern": [], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": true}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Cross", "Jesus"], "scripture": ["John 19:18"], "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Were you there when they cru -- ci -- fied my Lord? Were you there when they cru -- ci -- fied my Lord? Oh! Some -- times it caus -- es me to trem -- ble, trem -- ble, trem -- ble. Were you there when they cru -- ci -- fied my Lord?", "prose": ["Were you there when they crucified my Lord?", "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?", "Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.", "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree? Oh! Some -- times it caus -- es me to trem -- ble, trem -- ble, trem -- ble. Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?", "prose": ["Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?", "Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?", "Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.", "Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?"]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb? Oh! Some -- times it caus -- es me to trem -- ble, trem -- ble, trem -- ble. Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?", "prose": ["Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?", "Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?", "Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.", "Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb? Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb? Oh! Some -- times it caus -- es me to trem -- ble, trem -- ble, trem -- ble. Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?", "prose": ["Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?", "Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?", "Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.", "Were you there when God raised Him from the tomb?"]}}, "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "African-American spiritual, sung well before its first printing in William E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns (1899, where Barton gives stanzas crucified / nailed / pierced / sun refused to shine). Stanza set and wording here follow the source of the setting, The Cyber Hymnal #7233 (crucified / nailed Him to the tree / laid Him in the tomb / God raised Him from the tomb), cross-checked against the Hymnary.org authority text (same four stanzas). Public domain.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}