{"id":7083,"date":"2007-01-01T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:01:16","slug":"this-little-light-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7083","title":{"rendered":"This Little Light Of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/This_Little_Light.jpg\" height=\"350\" width=\"250\"\n\n <\/p\/>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I<br \/>\ndownload this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/This_Little_Light_Of_Mine.mp3\">This Little Light Of Mine<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">This is an old spiritual. I first heard it performed by Bob Gibson on the 5-string banjo at the Latin School of Chicago in 1957. His arrangement was more Dixieland style with a fast 2\/4 beat. Bob inspired the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tonight-Person-Limeliters\/dp\/B000002W37\/sr=8-1\/qid=1167668144\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-9011857-7106202?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music\">Limeliters<\/a> who took a number of his arrangements and made them more sophisticated.  It was an honor to record with them on their first RCA album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tonight-Person-Limeliters\/dp\/B000002W37\/sr=8-1\/qid=1167668144\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-9011857-7106202?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music\">&#8220;Tonight In Person&#8221;<\/a> in 1960. I decided to do &#8220;This Little Light&#8221; with a 12-string Rickenbacker  &#8220;jingle jangle&#8221; feel. This is the first Folk Den song that I&#8217;ve recorded using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pro_Tools\">Pro Tools<\/a> on my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">Mac Book Pro 2 Core Duo<\/a>, and the first one that features my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderly.com\/new_instruments\/items\/D45.htm\">Martin D-45<\/a> on rhythm.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] This little light of mine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\n[C] Oh, this little light of mine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it [G] shine<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nThis little light of mine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it [C] shine<br \/>\n[G] Let it shine, [D] let it shine, [G] let it shine<\/p>\n<p>Ev&#8217;ry where I go<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nOh, ev&#8217;ry where I go<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nEv&#8217;ry where I go<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine<\/p>\n<p>All in my house<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nOh, all in my house<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nAll in my house<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to make it shine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just going to let it shine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going to make it shine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just going to let it shine<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going to make it shine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just going to let it shine<br \/>\nLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine<\/p>\n<p>Out in the dark<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nOh, out in the dark<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nOut in the dark<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to let it shine<br \/>\nLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine\n <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}