Artist: Roland Hayes
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1927
Spiritual. Re-recorded for Columbia in '39 with subtitle: He Never Said A Mumberlin' Word and in '53 as part of song cycle The Life Of Christ (Vanguard).
Covers:
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet [as He Just Hung His Head And Died for Paramount]
John Morel [for Parlophone]
Prison blacksmith [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word; John A. Lomax recording for the L.o.C. in the LA State Pen of Angola, while he discovered Lead Belly on the side]
Group of Negro convicts [as And He Never Said A Mumblin' Word; again a Lomax recording, in the MS State Pen (Parchman)]
Golden Gate Quartet [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word for OKeh]
Marian Anderson [for Victor with Franz Rupp on piano]
Lead Belly [as They Hung Him On A Cross in medley with Swing Low Sweet Chariot and in '48 as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word during his Last Sessions for Folkways]
Josh White [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word]
Dock Reed & Vera Hall [as Look How They Done My Lord for Folkways]
Sensational Nightingales [as See How They Done My Lord for Peacock]
Goldebriars [as A Mumblin Word (He Never Said)]
Kurt Cobain [solo recording as part of side project The Jury with members of Nirvana (Cobain & Krist Novoselic) and Screaming Trees ((Mark Lanegan & Mark Pickerel) as They Hung Him On A Cross; Cobain knew Lead Belly's Last Sessions]
Roger McGuinn [as Easter]
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