# Who Sang Mathew Mark Luke and John song?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [January 21, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176 "2022-01-21T15:30:45Z")
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/1 "2022-01-21T15:30:45Z")
My Google is letting me down. I’m only finding a kids nursery song.
There’s a 60’s folk song by Joan Baez, CSN, or maybe Peter Paul & Mary? One of the folk singers.
Mathew Mark Luke and John, or Martin, Luke or John something like that.
I got the phrase stuck in my head.
It was a famous protest song.
What song am I remembering?
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/2 "2022-01-21T15:32:48Z")
Abraham, Martin and John by Dion? [Abraham \* Martin and John \*\*\* Dion - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hFMy4pTrs)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/3 "2022-01-21T15:37:26Z")
That’s it!
I couldn’t get the Apostles separated from the song.
Haven’t heard this one in decades
Thanks
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/4 "2022-01-21T15:41:21Z")
That song popped up on an XM channel I was listening to a few days ago.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/5 "2022-01-21T15:47:59Z")
It’s odd that the guy known for The Wanderer and Run Around Sue has a folk song.
I thought it was Joan Baez.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/6 "2022-01-21T16:43:00Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> It’s odd that the guy known for The Wanderer and Run Around Sue has a folk song.
That’s nothing. Listen to his take on Purple Haze.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPBZC1Zh10)
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### Author:  [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/7 "2022-01-21T18:28:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> It’s odd that the guy known for The Wanderer and Run Around Sue has a folk song.
Eh, the late 60s saw a lot of experimenting among established artists. Bobby Darin, who recorded “Dream Lover”, “Mack the Knife” and “Beyond the Sea” also recorded the most famous version of “If I Were a Carpenter.”
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/8 "2022-01-21T18:35:37Z")
I’ve never listened to, or even heard of, the Dion version of this song.
On the eastern side of the Atlantic the only top 100 hit for Abraham, Martin & John (around that time) was sung by Marvin Gaye, reaching #9 in 1969. This was never released as a single in the US.
I’m now wondering whether the Dion song was even released in the UK. If it was then shame on the British for failing to propel this number into the top 100.
I loved his early works. I’m glad to learn he remains alive and apparently well at 82.
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### Author:  [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/9 "2022-01-21T22:45:26Z")
Dion is an interesting guy. Sometime in the 80s I saw him in a “rock and roll revue” featuring Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Kim Wilson and Steve Cropper. Dion and Parker did a lovely duet on Abraham… etc.
There was also a song called Gospel Plow that Dylan (and maybe PP&M) did that goes something like: “Matthew Mark Luke and John, all them prophets dead and gone.” Or something like that.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/10 "2022-01-21T23:01:01Z")
Oddly, the first time I ever saw it performed was by. . . [Moms Mabley on the Merv Griffin Show.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIYVDrFphg)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/11 "2022-01-22T00:40:03Z")
Emmylou Harris does an incredible cover of Abraham, Martin, and John.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlFWoN_a-Q)
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/12 "2022-01-22T18:03:00Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#):
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> I’ve never listened to, or even heard of, the Dion version of this song.
Interesting. Until you talked about it, I’d only ever heard the Dion version and never knew Marvin Gaye had also performed it. Of the two, I prefer Dion’s version.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-mathew-mark-luke-and-john-song/958176/13 "2022-01-22T18:15:41Z")
Wow. That is a _stunning_ performance.