Trouble Will Soon Be Over

"Trouble Will Soon Be Over"
Single by Blind Willie Johnson
A-side	"The Rain Don't Fall on Me"
Released	1930
Format	10" single
Recorded	April 20, 1929; Atlanta, GA
Genre	Gospel blues
Length	3:14
Label	Columbia 14537-D
Blind Willie Johnson singles chronology
"John the Revelator" / "String Module Error: Match not found" (String Module Error: Match not found) "The Rain Don't Fall on Me" / "String Module Error: Match not found" (1930) "When the War Was On" / "String Module Error: Match not found" (String Module Error: Match not found)
"John the Revelator" / "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" "The Rain Don't Fall on Me" / "Trouble Will Soon Be Over" "When the War Was On" / "Praise God I'm Satisfied"

"Trouble (in the Land) Will Soon Be Over" is a traditional gospel blues song recorded in 1929 by Blind Willie Johnson (voice and guitar) and Willie B. Harris (backing vocals), who is thought to have been his first wife.

"Trouble" is this earthly life; the singer looks forward to a better, heavenly, one: "Trouble will soon be over, sorrow will have an end".

The singer reflects that God was a friend to the Biblical King David, and hopes for like treatment: "I'll gauge that the same God that David served will give me rest some day".

One verse includes the words "I'll take this yoke upon me". It alludes to the Biblical verse Matthew "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light". The yoke is in this instance a carrying pole, designed to assist people with heavy loads.

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