Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor?

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1. Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor'?
Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor'?
Ho — o — o — o !
Ĝin rigardante, ho, mi tremas, tremas, tremas.
Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor'?

2. Ĉu vi vidis la morton de l' Sinjor'?
Ĉu vi vidis la morton de l' Sinjor'?
Ho — o — o — o !
Ĝin rigardante, ho, mi tremas, tremas, tremas.
Ĉu vi vidis la morton de l' Sinjor'?

3. Ĉu vi vidis la tombon de l' Sinjor'?
Ĉu vi vidis la tombon de l' Sinjor'?
Ho — o — o — o !
Ĝin rigardante, ho, mi tremas, tremas, tremas.
Ĉu vi vidis la tombon de l' Sinjor'?

Source: TTT-Himnaro Cigneta #82

Translator (attributed to): Donald Broadribb

Donald Broadribb was an American Esperantist who spent much of his life in Australia. He studied philosophy, theology, linguistics and psychology, receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester (NY) in 1954, MA from the University of Illinois in 1956, an STM, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1974. He held a diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and worked as a psychoanalyst. Broadribb edited Kristana Bulteno (1956-1960), Nord-Amerika Esperanto-Revuo (1959-1962), Biblia Revuo (1964-1972), La Nigra Cigno (1980-1988), and Esperanto sub la Suda Kruco (1989-2008). Beginning in 2008 he edited and published the online periodical Mirmekobo. He was a regular contributor (particularl… Go to person page >

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First Line: Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor'?
Title: Ĉu vi vidis la krucon de l' Sinjor?
English Title: Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Translator (attributed to): Donald Broadribb
Source: African American spiritual, anonymous, 19th century
Language: Esperanto

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WERE YOU THERE

The congregation could sing the entire spiritual, but the tune has a call-and-response structure; try singing unaccompanied with a soloist asking the initial questions in each stanza and the congregation joining in at "Oh, sometimes." The soloist could take significant liberty with the melody and rh…

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