Mary don t you weep lyrics

When slaves sang "Mary Don't You Weep," they were reminded that God rewards his believers. The song stressed that resurrection was promised, but it also focused on the idea that God protected his people and punished their enemies. "Pharaoh's army got drowned," the lyrics repeated over and over again.

In 1957, Reverend Claude Jeter wrote an arrangement of “Mary, Don't You Weep” for his gospel ensemble, the Swan Silvertones. “Mary, Don't You Weep” had been around as a spiritual since before the civil war, and gospel quartets had performed it before, but Jeter's version took on a life of its own.