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Paul and Silas in Jail

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Format
  
10" 78rpm single

Length
  
2:43

Genre
  
Gospel blues

Label
  
Columbia 14369-D

A-side
  
"Mother's Last Word to Her Son"

Recorded
  
December 2, 1927; Dallas, TX

"Paul and Silas in Jail" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (1880–1954), and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927.

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Description

The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31:

As of 2015, the song does not seem to have been recorded by any other artist.

  • 1927 – Washington Phillips, Columbia Records single

    • Other songs

  • "Paul and Silas (Bound in Jail)", an unrelated gospel song about the same Biblical story; it has sometimes been called "Paul and Silas in Jail"

    • References

    Paul and Silas in Jail Wikipedia
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