Ka cika wannan magana: Dorsey ya rubuta waƙar da aka fi sani da waƙar waƙoƙi na bishara-blues a duniya bayan matarsa da ɗanta da aka haifa ba zato ba tsammani suka mutu a ranar 26 da 27 ga Agusta, 1932. An fassara waƙar nan "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" zuwa harsuna 32. Aretha Franklin ya rubuta "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" a 1956, a wannan shekarar da Gwamnan Tennessee Frank Clement ya karanta shi a lokacin jawabinsa na farko a
Taron kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat. Ya zama taken Fannie Lou Hamer ta Mississippi Summer. Abokin Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, ya rera shi a jana'izar Martin Luther King, Jr. Elvis Presley ya yi rikodin waƙar bishara ta Dorsey ta biyu mafi mashahuri, "Peace in the Valley", ta sayar da miliyoyin kofe.