“Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.”

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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!”

From Literature