Give Me Jesus

Give Me Jesus (also known as And I Heard the Mourner Say) is a traditional American Christian spiritual song.

Possibly the earliest known version of "Give Me Jesus" was published in the United States in 1845 by the Rev.

[1] By 1849 the Methodists published a version, and the song was popularized in the mid-nineteenth century through various camp meetings and hymnals.

[5] In 1873 the Fisk Jubilee Singers published a version of the song that remains popular today.

[6] Notable nineteenth-century songwriters published versions and derivations of the song, including Fanny Crosby with "Take the World, But Give Me Jesus",[7] and musicians such as Vince Gill[8] and Fernando Ortega have covered and interpreted the song in the twenty-first century.