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Who Will Sing For Me

Composer: Traditional


Recordings

no info Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Flatt and Scruggs, 1959
no info EP, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, 1959
no info Good Old Camp Meeting Songs, Stanley Brothers, 1962
no info Single, Jimmy Martin and his Sunny Mountain Boys , 1966
no info Detroit City, Flatt & Scruggs, 1969
info Stanley Sound Around The World, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1973
info Won't You Come And Sing For Me, Hazel Foster/Alice Gerrard, 1973
no info Good Old Camp Meeting Songs, Stanley Brothers, 1976
no info Wind That Shakes The Barley, John McCutcheon, 1977
no info Thank God For Radio, Gerry Ford, 1986
info Angel Band, Emmylou Harris, 1987
no info You Can Feel It In Your Soul, Flatt and Scruggs, 1988
no info A Beautiful Life, Bass Mountain Boys, 1990
no info Late Last Night, Skip Gorman and Rick Starkey, 1991
info The Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old Timey Gospel Music, Various Artists (Delia Bell and Bill Grant), 1991
info 1948-1959, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, 1992
info Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1994
info 1971-1973, Ralph Stanley And The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1995
no info Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Jimmy Martin, 1995
no info Legendary Chestnut Grove Quartet, Chestnut Grove Quartet, 1995
no info Classic Stanley, Ralph Stanley/Keith Whitley/Ricky Scaggs, 1995
info Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass, Hazel Foster/Alice Gerrard, 1996
no info Classic Gospel, Ralph Stanley, 1996
no info Best of Emerson & Waldron, Emerson & Waldron, 1997
16 Greatest Gospel Hits, The Stanley Brothers, 1997
info I Feel Like Singing Today, Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys, 1999
no info Dramtreeo, Dramtreeo, 199?
no info Family Album, Grandpa Jones, 19??
no info James A. Puckett, 19??
no info Single, Shenandoah Valley Boys, 19??
no info I'll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning, The Stanley Brothers, 19??
no info Three Pickers, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs, 2003
info The King Years 1961-1965, The Stanley Brothers, 2003
no info This Train, Wayfaring Strangers, 2003
info Don't Cry to Me, Jimmy Martin, 2004
info Baby Girl: A Tribute to My Father, Carter Stanley, Jeanie Stanley with Ralph Stanley and Ralph Stanley II, 2005
no info What's in a Name, Grass Backwards, 2006
info The Definitive Collection 1947-1966, The Stanley Brothers, 2007

Notes

Played by the Black Mountain Boys on the 6th March 1964.

The lyrics used by the Black Mountain Boys are as follows;

I often sing, for those I love
Who go to live, with Christ above
No more on earth, their forms I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for me

Who'll sing for me, when I am gone
As I so oft, for friends have done
And it won't be long, 'til (when) I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for me

The time to go, is drawing nigh
'Til I too, must say goodbye
Just over there, with Christ I'll be
Get all my friends, to sing for me

Who'll sing for me, when I am gone
As I so oft, for friends have done
And it won't be long, 'til (when) I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for me.

Title sometimes given on recordings as Who'll Sing For Me. Sometimes credits are Traditional. Different recordings have different writing credits. Some have Ralph and Carter Stanley, some Thomas J Farris, some G Murdoch, some J. Ely.