| "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" | |
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| Single by Washington Phillips | |
| Recorded | Dallas, Texas, December 2, 1927 |
| Genre | Gospel blues |
| Length | 3:10 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Charles A. Tindley |
| Producer(s) | Frank B. Walker[1] |
| "Leave It There" | |
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| Single by Pace Jubilee Singers | |
| Recorded | Chicago, June 30, 1928 |
| Genre | Gospel |
| Length | 3:07 |
| Label | Victor (21551-B) |
| Songwriter(s) | Charles A. Tindley |
| "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" | |
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| Single by Blind Willie Johnson | |
| Recorded | New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11, 1929 |
| Genre | Gospel blues |
| Length | 2:57 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Charles A. Tindley |
"Leave It There" is a Christian hymn composed in 1916 by African-American Methodist minister Charles A. Tindley.[2][3] It has become popular enough to have been included in 12 hymnals; and even to be attributed to "traditional" or "anonymous". The title is sometimes given as "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" or as "Take Your Burden to the Lord" or as "Take Your Burden", words taken from the song's refrain; the plurals "burdens" and "them" are sometimes used, and "God" instead of "the Lord":[3]
Leave it there, leave it there,
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
If you trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
- ^ Corcoran, Michael (December 29, 2002). "Exhuming the Legend of Washington Phillips". Austin Statesman. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ^ "LEAVE IT THERE". hymnary.org. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- ^ a b "LEAVE IT THERE". cyberhymnal.org. Retrieved August 3, 2015.