<P> In 1932, Martha Emmons published a nine - stanza, nine - refrains, version that she heard in Waco, Texas, under the title "Tone de Bell Easy". Two years later John and Alan Lomax printed a composite with 11 stanzas and 9 refrains . </P> <P> Versions were recorded by country blues artists like Vera Reed and gospel groups like the Soul Stirrers . The song gained greater prominence in popular music when Bob Dylan included a version (along with several others dealing with the subject of death) on his 1962 eponymous debut album . The song, closest to Josh White's version, had a slightly different name on the Dylan album, "In My Time of Dyin"'. </P> <P> The liner notes to the album explain: </P> <P> Dylan had never sung' In My Time of Dyin' ' prior to this recording session . He does not recall where he first heard it . The guitar is fretted with the lipstick holder (makeshift slide) he borrowed from his girl, Suze Rotolo, who sat devotedly and wide - eyed through the recording session . </P>

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