"Were You There?" is an American spiritual that was likely written in the early 1800s. Each verse of the hymn almost puts the singer there, at that tragic event -- Were you there when they crucified my Lord? . . . Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree? . . . O sometimes it causes me to tremble! tremble! tremble! However, in the predetermined purposes of God, on the third day, the tragedy of the cross was overcome by the triumphant Resurrection! Were you there?