Trouble Will Soon Be Over

"Trouble Will Soon Be Over"
"Trouble Will Soon Be Over"
Single by Blind Willie Johnson
Released	1930
Recorded	Atlanta, Georgia, April 20, 1929
Genre	Gospel blues
Length	3:14
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Unknown

"Trouble (in the Land) Will Soon Be Over" is a traditional gospel blues song recorded in 1929 by Blind Willie Johnson (voice and guitar) and Willis B. Harris (backing vocals), who is thought to have been his first wife.^[1]

Lyrics

"Trouble" is this earthly life; the singer looks forward to a better, heavenly, one: "Trouble will soon be over, sorrow will have an end".

The singer reflects that God was a friend to the Biblical King David, and hopes for like treatment: "I'll gauge that the same God that David served will give me rest some day".

One verse includes the words "I'll take this yoke upon me". It alludes to the Biblical verse Matthew 11:30 "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light". The yoke is in this instance a carrying pole, designed to assist people with heavy loads.

Other recordings

1959–66 – Dorothy Love Coates (exact year uncertain as of 2015^[update])^[2]
2000 – Geoff Muldaur on the album Password
2001 – Chris Thomas King^[3]
2016 – Sinéad O'Connor on the album God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson^[4]

References

^ Charters, Samuel (1993). The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (CD booklet). Blind Willie Johnson. New York City: Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. C2K 52835.
^ Dorothy Love Coates: Trouble in the Land Will Soon Be Over at AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
^ Chris Thomas King: Trouble Will Soon Be Over at AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
^ God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson at AllMusic. Retrieved February 7, 2016.

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[1] Charters, Samuel (1993). The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (CD booklet). Blind Willie Johnson. New York City: Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. C2K 52835.

[2] Dorothy Love Coates: Trouble in the Land Will Soon Be Over at AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2015.

[3] Chris Thomas King: Trouble Will Soon Be Over at AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2015.

[4] God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson at AllMusic. Retrieved February 7, 2016.

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Original Columbia 78 rpm records (chronological)	"Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" / "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole" "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" / "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" "Mother's Children Have a Hard Time" / "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down" "I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge" "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" / "Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying" "God Don't Never Change" / "Let Your Light Shine on Me" "Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King" / "You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond" "God Moves on the Water" / "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" "John the Revelator" / "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" "The Rain Don't Fall on Me" / "Trouble Will Soon Be Over" "Praise God I'm Satisfied" / "When the War Was On" "Can't Nobody Hide from God" / "If It Had Not Been For Jesus" "The Soul of a Man" / "Church, I'm Fully Saved To-Day" "Go with Me to That Land" / "Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right" "Take Your Stand" / "Sweeter as the Years Roll By"
Compilation albums	The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (1993) The Soul of a Man (2003) American Epic: The Best of Blind Willie Johnson (2017)
Related articles	List of songs (with recording & catalogue details)