<Li> The Jubilee Singers sang a song with a similar chorus and with different tune and lyrics, entitled "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See," first published in 1872 . </Li> <Li> The second line ("Nobody knows my sorrow") or fourth line is changed in some renditions to be "Nobody knows but Jesus". </Li> <Li> The song appears in the disc of the year 1973 "Mocedades 5" of the Spanish group Mocedades . </Li> <P> On the late 19th century African - American music began to appear in classical music art forms, in arrangements made by black composers such as Samuel Coleridge - Taylor, Henry Thacker Burleigh and J. Rosamond Johnson . Johnson made an arrangement of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See" for voice and piano in 1917, when he was directing the New York Music School Settlement for Colored People . </P>

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