What a Friend We Have in Jesus

~ Song

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lyricist:Joseph Medlicott Scriven (in 1855)
composer:Charles Crozat Converse (in 1868)
lyrics page:https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Army_and_Navy_Hymnal/Hymns/What_a_Friend_We_Have_in_Jesus [info]
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/121670 [info]
Wikidata:Q3364742 [info]
later parody versions:Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
later translated versions:Hvilken venn vi har i Jesus
later versions:What a Friend We Have in Congress
is the basis for:Ik heb u lief
When This Lousy War Is Over (set to the tune of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus")
arrangements:12 Songs: What a Friend
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Sid Feller and Joe Guercio arrangement/'adaptation', recorded by some artists incl. Jim Nabors, The Supremes)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1928-06-30What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverPace Jubilee Singers with Hattie Parker?:??
1951-02-21What a Friend We Have in Jesus (1951-02-21)Sister Rosetta Tharpe with The Rosette Gospel Singers2:56
1960-05What a Friend (We Have in Jesus)The Stanley Brothers with The Clinch Mountain Boys2:32
1960-06What a FriendThe Stanley Brothers3:35
1963-04-09What a Friend We Have in JesusReno and Smiley2:45
1972-01-13What a Friend We Have in Jesus (live, 1972-01-13: New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, USA)cover and liveAretha Franklin5:56
1972-01-13 – 1972-01-14What a Friend We Have in Jesus (live, 1972-01: New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, USA)cover and liveAretha Franklin6:05
1972-01-14What a Friend We Have in Jesus (live, 1972-01-14: New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, USA)cover and liveAretha Franklin6:19
1981-08-05What a Friend We Have in Jesus (live, 1981-08-05: Molde kirke, Molde, Norway)liveMagnolia Jazzband, Lillian Boutté3:07
1982-07-04What a Friend We Have in JesusliveBill Monroe4:15
1991What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAline White and Magnolia Jazzband9:07
1994-06Hymn Medley: Abide With Me / Just as I Am Without One Plea / What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Amazing Gracecover, instrumental and medleyCharlie Haden & Hank Jones7:37
2000-05-31What a Friend We Have in JesusinstrumentalWycliffe Gordon3:47
2001-03-17What a Friend We Have in Jesuscover and instrumentalArthur Blythe4:29
Cast Your BurdensmedleyWatoto Children's Choir4:37
Jesus Is My FriendWashington Phillips2:53
No Not One/What a Friend We Have in JesusmedleyLifetree Kids2:05
No Not One/What a Friend We Have in Jesus (instrumental)instrumental and medleyLifetree Kids2:05
Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in JesusElizabeth Cotten3:02
What a FriendMoira Anderson3:45
What a FriendinstrumentalMaidenhead Citadel Band, Stuart Hall2:03
What a FriendcoverJimmie Davis?:??
What a Friend I Have in JesusThe Louis Cottrell Trio3:46
What a friend we have in JesusinstrumentalBart Theunissen2:57
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAaron Neville5:02
What a Friend We Have in Jesuscover and instrumentalCharlie Vaughan3:13
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverGeorge Jones4:14
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverGeorge Jones4:12
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverMerle Haggard2:36
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:54
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:33
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:51
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:16
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:29
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:33
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:56
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford2:22
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:50
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverErnie Ford3:27
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:19
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:50
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:19
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:19
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:50
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:50
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:22
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:54
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesusLoretta Lynn3:53
What a Friend We Have in JesusSt. Olaf Choir, Anton Armstrong3:29
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverPat Boone3:40
What a Friend We Have in JesusLondon Community Gospel Choir2:54
What a Friend We Have in JesusPat Boone3:38
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAnn.3:03
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverKenny Rogers3:01
What a Friend We Have in JesusSlim Whitman2:42
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTiny Tim0:55
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverBonnie Owens?:??
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverWillie Nelson & Bobbie Nelson3:20
What a Friend We Have in JesusThe Bill Gaither Trio3:25
What a Friend We Have in JesusSteven Curtis Chapman feat. Ricky Skaggs3:18
What a Friend We Have in Jesus[unknown]3:17
What a Friend We Have in JesusThe Hillbilly Thomists2:13
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAl Green4:14
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverRay Price2:58
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAlan Jackson2:16
What a Friend We Have in JesusMichael W. Smith4:08
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverTennessee Ernie Ford3:52
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (live, 1994-04-23(24): Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, United States)coverDolly Parton2:37
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverDolly Parton3:47
What a Friend We Have in JesusinstrumentalSandy Rothman & Steve Pottier5:18
What a Friend We Have in JesusDoc & Merle Watson3:36
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverElla Fitzgerald4:02
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverElla Fitzgerald4:04
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverAretha Franklin5:58
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverChelsea Moon & The Franz Brothers4:18
What a Friend We Have in Jesuscover and instrumentalAdvance Base1:59
What a Friend We Have in JesuscoverErnie Ashworth2:44
What a Friend We Have in JesusAl Green4:13
What a Friend We Have in JesusJohn Braden5:36
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