<P> The lyrics `` Jesus goin ' a-make up my dyin ' bed '' appear in historian Robert Emmet Kennedy 's Mellows -- A Chronicle of Unknown Singers published in 1925 , on Louisiana street performers , and also listed in the Cleveland Library 's Index to Negro Spirituals . The variation `` He is a Dying - bed maker '' appears in the song `` When I 's Dead and Gone '' as transcribed in 1924 or 1925 in the south - east . A close theme in English hymnary is found in Isaac Watts , and many derivative hymnals . In October 1926 , Reverend J.C. Burnett recorded `` Jesus Is Going to Make Up Your Dying Bed '' , but it was never issued . Blind Willie Johnson may have heard Burnett 's song or otherwise learned some of his lyrics . </P>
<P> The lyrics `` Jesus goin ' a-make up my dyin ' bed '' appear in historian Robert Emmet Kennedy 's Mellows -- A Chronicle of Unknown Singers published in 1925 , on Louisiana street performers , and also listed in the Cleveland Library 's Index to Negro Spirituals . The variation `` He is a Dying - bed maker '' appears in the song `` When I 's Dead and Gone '' as transcribed in 1924 or 1925 in the south - east . A close theme in English hymnary is found in Isaac Watts , and many derivative hymnals . In October 1926 , Reverend J.C. Burnett recorded `` Jesus Is Going to Make Up Your Dying Bed '' , but it was never issued . Blind Willie Johnson may have heard Burnett 's song or otherwise learned some of his lyrics . </P>
who wrote the song in my time of dying
who wrote the song in my time of dying
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