Letter and enclosures. Ablyne Lockhart to Albert C. Barnes, July 14, 1943. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives

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Title: Letter and enclosures. Ablyne Lockhart to Albert C. Barnes, July 14, 1943. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives
Description: Lockhart's handwritten letter and sheet music based on spirituals mailed to Barnes; Ablyne Lockhart (1917–2014), daughter of a Methodist minister from Riverside, California, discovered her love of singing in the church choir. In 1942, inspired by Albert Barnes’s book The Art in Painting, she enrolled in classes at the Barnes Foundation, where her musical interests gained support. Awarded a scholarship that same year, she was later connected with Fisk University’s John Wesley Work III and conducted fieldwork across the rural South in 1943, documenting African American spirituals at revivals, camp meetings, and church gatherings (NetX 1942).; Ablyne Lockhart Image - Courtesy of Barnes Foundation; Albert C. Barnes, MD (1872 – 1951) - Biography
Rights: This work is not in copyright, but commercial uses of this digital representation are limited. For more information, contact reference@barnesfoundation.org and see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/
Creator: Lockhart, Ablyne
Format: Text
Language: eng
Spatial Coverage: Philadelphia, PA
Publisher: The Barnes Foundation
Contributor: The Barnes Foundation
Extent: 8
Identifier: AR-ABC-1943-380
Subject: Sheet music
Date Created: 1943
Is Part Of: Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives
transcription: O Lord I know I Been Changed

by Ablyne Lockhart

O, Lord, I know I been changed. O, Lord, I know

I been changed. Lord, I know I been changed

Just because I been born again. I’m sometimes way down yonder you can talk about

up an sometimes down. Just because I been where I came through me just as much as you please

born again. Still my soul feels heavenly bound. If you’d been there you would shouted too[.] Goin’ to tell it to my Jesus down on my knees

Just because I been born again.

Item sets: Black Joy & Resilience

Resource class: Image

Media: Lockhart, Ablyne Sheet music.jpg