Give Me That Old Time Religion

From Vol. 3
Gospel Goodies

SUGGESTED KEY: D

CAPO: None

CHORD FAMILY: D

TIME SIGNATURE: 4/4

SKILL LEVEL: Easy

A Little About This Song…

Give Me That Old-Time Religion is a traditional Gospel song dating from the late 1800s. Some scholars have held the opinion that the song may have English folk origins but it’s claimed as a Negro Spiritual as well. Charles Davis Tillman published the song in 1891, introducing it to white congregations, but he first heard it sung by African-Americans when he attended a camp meeting in Lexington, South Carolina in 1889. It had been published earlier, in 1873, by G. D. Pike in his collection Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars.

A Related Bible Verse…

John 10:2-4

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

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