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I've Got a Brother in the Snow-White Fieeds
The first stanza corresponds to a song of four lines in White
FS 119, also from Nortli Carolina. Several phrases, White
notes, appear in other songs, which he cites. Cf. 'Want to (io to
Heaven When I Die' in A. E. Wier, Songs of tin- Sunny South
(New York, 1929), p. 99.
No title. From Lucille Cheek, Chatham county, wlio was a student at
the Duke University Sunuuer Scliool in 1923.
1 I've got a brother in the snow-white fields,
Praying all night long.
I want to go to Heaven when 1 die.
Oh, my Lawcl ! Oh. my Lawd !
I want to go to Heaven when I die.
2 I want to go to Heaven and I want to go right.
Oh. how I long to be there !
I want to go to Heaven all dressed in white,
Oh. how I long to be there !
3 I want to go to Heaven at my own expense,
Oh. how I long to be there. (Etc.)^