Hark, from the Tomb
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"Hark, from the Tomb" is a hymn sung as an American folk and blues song in the United States. The words may have first been put down by English hymn writer Isaac Watts.[1] It was sung in America by the 19th century or earlier, as a Kentucky minister described it in a memoir published 1888 as being sung by the line leader of a slave coffle in that state.[2] It was recorded in 1936 in Smithville, Tennessee,[3] in 1952 in Batesville, Arkansas,[4] and in 1958 in Rogers, Arkansas.[5]
The title of the hymn appears in a piece of dialogue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and was borrowed from there into Finnegans Wake.[6]
