LONELY TOMB
Created on 12/05/2009Latest update on 21/02/2024
Artist: X.C. Sacred Quartet
Author: Elder John Ellis
Label: Document
Year: 1927
Written following the death of evangelist Joseph Thomas (The White Pilgrim), felled by small pox in 1835. Used a Scottish melody.
Covers:
- 1938:
Wade Mainer & The Sons Of The Pioneers [and in '47 as Lonely Tombs with his Mountaineers]
- 1950s:
Hylo Brown [idem]
- 1951:
Hank Williams [Mother's Best transcription]
- 1959:
Hobart Smith Texas Gladden & Preston Smith [Lomax recording]
- 1960:
Stanley Brothers [as Lonely Tombs]
- 1966:
Blue Sky Boys [as Oh Those Tombs]
- 1968:
- 1969:
