O Death
O Death — also known as O, Death, Oh Death, and Conversations with Death — is a traditional American folk song.
Country blues banjo player Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (1898-1971) recorded the song in the late 1920s.[1] A recording from the 1938 National Folk Festival held in Washington, D.C. is on file with the Library of Congress.[2] Various folk music artists included Oh, Death on a variety of musical collections throughout the 1970s and '80s.[3]
O Death Media
A graveyard in Virginia, displaying traditional Appalachian funerary decorations.
First line reads: Death/ O, sinner I'm come by heaven's decree, my warrant is to summon thee.
References
- ↑ "Wichita Eagle - Song 'Oh, Death' dates back to the late 1920s and was also recorded by Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers for the Library of Congress". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
- ↑ "Oh death". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ↑ Wichita Eagle, Op. cit.
