WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD?
A 19th-century African American spiritual, that was the first spiritual included in a major American hymnal (in 1940).
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble,
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge, and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. [Acts 2:23]