The following listing is of sermons which features music from Peoples Temple services in California, mainly between 1973 and 1976. Several of these transcripts include the lyrics — especially if the lyrics have been altered — of standard hymns. The singers range from the Peoples Temple choir, to the full congregation, to a soloist (oftentimes Jim Jones himself). This listing does include a number of tapes in which there is no singing at all, but rather, a discussion of the hymns and how they have been received.
In general, the best way to find the place(s) in each transcript for the music is to do a search on the page for “sings,” “singing,” or “singers.”
The full content analysis of these hymns will be conducted at a later date.
Q 162 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27350
Q 218 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=93599 (Amazing Grace – altered?)
Q 233 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27386 (single song)
Q 356 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27431
Q 357 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27432
Q 436 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27460
Q 454 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27463
Q 497 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=114187
Q 597 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27482
Q 648 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27518
Q 705 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=77972
Q 897 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27609
Q 919 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27611 (songs may not be recognizable)
Q 920 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=62822
Q 921 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27613
Q 923 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=85629
Q 926 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=62889
Q 939 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=66804
Q 945 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=85643
Q 951 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27623 (songs may not be recognizable)
Q 953 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27625
Q 956 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27627
Q 962 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=60680
Q 964 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=77977
Q 966 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=60695
Q 969 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=68784 (We Shall Overcome)
Q 972 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=60712
Q 974 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27630
Q 978 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27631
Q 987 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=63129
Q 1015 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=78014
Q 1015a https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27302
Q 1016 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=63160
Q 1018 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27304 (songs may not be recognizable)
Q 1021 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27307 (commentary on “Imagine” and :”Blowing in the Wind”
Q 1022 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27308
Q 1023 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27309 (songs may not be recognizable)
Q 1024 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=63243
Q 1025 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27311 (songs may not be recognizable)
Q 1027 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29172 (reference to a song)
Q 1032 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27315 (single reference)
Q 1053-1 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=63327
Q 1054-2 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=85664
Q 1054-3 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27320
Q 1055-1 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29169 (Apparently just “He’s Able”)
Q 1055-2 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=29173 (May be popular song, by Tennessee ernie Ford
Q 1056-4 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27324 (example of changed lyric, from My Lord to Your God
Q 1057-3 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=63401 (old ship of Zion)
Q 1057-4 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27327
Q 1057-5 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27328 all of God’s children got shoes
Q 1058-2 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27329
Q 1059-1 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27331
Q 1059-2 https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27332 (songs may not be recognizable)