This Little Light of Mine
This Little Light of Mine a song by Odetta on Foxsoundi — Free Music, Smart Streaming for Everyone
About This Little Light of Mine
A gospel children's song written by Harry Dixon Loes (1895-1965) in about 1920. Loes, who studied at the Moody Bible Institute and the American Conservatory of Music, was a musical composer, and teacher, who wrote, and co-wrote, several other gospel songs. The song has since entered the folk tradition, first being collected by John Lomax in 1939. Often thought of as a Negro spiritual, it does not, however, appear in any collection of jubilee or plantation songs from the nineteenth century: .
From the album: Odetta Sings Folk Songs
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