THE HOLY CITY INSTRUMENTAL Violin 2021

The song is recorded in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review in 1911 as having been sung by an opera singer awaiting trial for fraud in his cell while a group of men arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct were before the judge.
The men were said to have dropped to their knees as the song began Last night I lay a-sleeping There came a dream so fair.
the lyrics contrasting with their previous nights drunkenness.
The songs conclusion resulted in the judge dismissing the men without punishment each having learned a lesson from the song

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