Who Will Sing For Me
Song composer(s)
Traditional
Grateful Dead Recordings
Not recorded by the Dead
Dead Related Recordings
No Dead related recordings entered
Other Recordings
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs : Flatt & Scruggs (1959)
Carl Story & his Rambling Mountaineers (1959)
Good Old Camp Meeting Songs : Stanley Brothers (1962)
Single : Jimmy Martin & his Sunny Mountain Boys (1966)
Wind That Shakes The Barley : John McCutcheon (1977)
Thank God For Radio : Gerry Ford (1986)
Angel Band : Emmylou Harris (1987)
You Can Feel It In Your Soul : Flatt & Scruggs (1988)
Beautiful Life : Bass Mountain Boys (1990)
Late Last Night : Skip Gorman & Rick Starkey (1991)
Will The Circle Be Unbroken : Jimmy Martin (1995)
Family Album : Grandpa Jones (19??)
James A. Puckett (19??)
Shenandoah Valley Boys (19??)Performance History
Played by the Black Mountain Boys on the 6th March 1964.
Not performed by the Grateful Dead. Occurs only on pre-Dead tapes featuring future members of the dead.
Notes
Title sometimes given as Who'll Sing For Me.
Sometimes Traditional. Sometimes Ralph & Carter Stanley, sometimes Thomas J Farris. Sometimes other writers credited.
Here are the lyrics used by the Black Mountain Boys;
I often sing, for those I love
Who go to live, with Christ above
No more on earth, their forms I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for meWho'll sing for me, when I am gone
As I so oft, for friends have done
And it won't be long, 'til (when) I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for meThe time to go, is drawing nigh
'Til I too, must say goodbye
Just over there, with Christ I'll be
Get all my friends, to sing for meWho'll sing for me, when I am gone
As I so oft, for friends have done
And it won't be long, 'til (when) I'll see
When I am gone, who'll sing for me