High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "In My Time of Dying" is a traditional gospel music song that has been recorded by numerous musicians. An early version, titled "Jesus Goin` A-Make Up My Dying Bed", is mentioned in historian Robert Emmet Kennedy`s Black Cameos published in 1924, on Louisiana street performers, and also listed in the Cleveland Library`s Index to Negro Spirituals. One of the first versions recorded was by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927 as "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" and Charlie Patton recorded a version in 1929. In 1945, Josh White recorded the song as "In My Time of Dying", which inspired several popular versions.