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“Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”

  1. An American spiritual (see also spiritual). It includes the lines:

    Nobody knows the trouble I've seen;

    Nobody knows but Jesus .



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Lara Downes, kneeling at her piano, played Florence Price’s arrangement of “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.”

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Hardships and frustrations lead to slow, stately renditions of such familiar tunes as “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”

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Finally, she returned for an encore, singing “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.”

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After singing “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” in which Tines absorbed, Christ-like, the world’s troubles for our sake, he folded the chair and placed it on the ground like a lifeless body.

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Even that most doleful of Christian laments—“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”—sounded snappy and upbeat through these women’s windpipes as they sauntered along: “Nani oze mpasi zazo! Nani oze mpasi!”

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