The song has since been adapted by countless ... you don’t find in many of the other renditions: Ain’t no grave can hold my body down That’s when I was almost startled to remember that ...

He took a left turn away from the sexual innuendo and relationship songs that made him famous ... open with the chorus: Ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down Ain’t no grave gonna hold my ...

You may know Brother Claude Ely as the author of “There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down”—the song You may know Brother Claude Ely as the author of “There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Ho ...