Lyr. Add: O Death! 2

Sinner, I come to you by Hebbin's decree;
This very night you must go wid me.

O-o death! O-o death!
How kin I go wid you?
"Jes' like a flower in its bloom,
Why should you cut me down so soon?
O-o death! O-o death!
How kin I go wid you?

"Eastern North Carolina Negroes; MS of W. O. Scroggs; 1908"
E. C. Perrow, "Songs and Rhymes from the South," 1911-1915, [2] 1913, Jour. American Folklore, v. 26, pp. 123-173, IV Religious Songs and Parodies of Religious Songs, no. 24.
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