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Let Your Light Shine On Me (3:09)

Cover of Dark Was the Night

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Let it shine on me, let it shine on me
Oh, let Your light from the lighthouse shine on
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me
Oh, let Your light from the lighthouse shine on

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  • Barcida

    Genial!!!!!

    20 Apr 12:25am Reply

  • Brokenhill42

    Amen. [3]

    28 Aug 2012 Reply

  • camocargo

    Does really sound like throat-singing. Also, he was born in Brenham, just down the road from me, currently here in College Station. Song wraps up tenderly.

    16 Mar 2012 Reply

  • BigChoupique

    @ CompSimpCarl ... Because at the time when they played, there were few resources and opportunities for a blind black man. They had to make a living someway. There was little slack for free-loaders... Blues offered them an opportunity to be self-supporting.

    30 Dec 2011 Reply

  • sstrosser1

    Speechless !!!!!

    30 Jul 2010 Reply

  • Eddymo

    You can taste invisible feelings

    11 May 2010 Reply

  • thanatophobe

    When he changes his voice in the middle he almost sounds like a Tuvan throat singer.

    3 Mar 2010 Reply

  • SeattleJQueen

    Powerful song.

    14 Feb 2010 Reply

  • Qteve

    why do we not have thesame laugrage???

    30 Jul 2009 Reply

  • CompSimpCarl

    why so many blind bluesmen?

    20 Jul 2009 Reply

  • almagal

    the poor bugger had a terrible life, but found relief in belief. This music is pure

    12 Jul 2009 Reply

  • roaddog23

    let the light shine on use all

    2 Jul 2009 Reply

  • isittaken

    wow this keeps getting better, builds as it strips, adding meaning while repeating. marvelous

    7 Jun 2009 Reply

  • Oppressotron

    Wow, divine intervention. No lie… I was thinking how much I needed to hear this song to give me a lift and by the grace of god it came on by random. Wow… thanks big guy. You added a tear to my eye but made me feel way better. You rule Blind Willie!

    22 May 2009 Reply

  • LuzNegra_MiAmor

    the sightless visionary

    18 Dec 2008 Reply

  • TinyShrine

    Holy shit... that gravel grit he puts in his voice in the middle, what a great transition. Reminds me of Howling Wolf.

    5 Dec 2008 Reply

  • CosmicEsperanto

    It really puts you in that time, but still makes you feel today. amazing.

    23 Aug 2008 Reply

  • Oppressotron

    More soulful then 99.9999% of the songs on most christian channels. So damn good!

    13 Aug 2008 Reply

  • Shinmeiryuougi

    Amen, indeed.

    11 Aug 2008 Reply

  • hnbtv_sports

    Amen

    19 Jun 2008 Reply
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