This Little Light of Mine

Author: African-American spiritual
Composer: African American spiritual

Languages (4)

This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:

• English: This Little Light of Mine
• French: Cette lumière en moi
• Portuguese: Tenho uma luz em mim
• Spanish: Mi pequeña luz
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Most common tunes for “This Little Light of Mine”

This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.

Appearances of “This Little Light of Mine” over time

This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Copyright status of original text

This text was first published in English, in 1934 or earlier.

Public domain

Earliest known source: John Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Jim Boyd (audio recording), 1934.
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Reference, Jan 1934.

Representative lyrics