667 Morality
'Morality.' Sung by Mrs. Alice Cooke, Boone, Watauga county, in 1922. This song shows interesting use of a closely related melodic idiom. Cf. Beggar's Opera, 'Song of Lucy,' No. 46, the middle section of the air : 'The Happy Clown.'
While beau - ty and youth are in their full prime,
And fol - ly and fash - ion af - feet our whole time;
O let not the phan - tom our wish - es en - gage;
Let us live so in youth — that we blush not in age.
For melodic relationship cf. ***DESO 149, No. 138 (identical text and tune) ; SOH 44; SAH 136; WSSU 149. No. 79; here the second half of our tune is missing.
Scale: Heptachordal, plagal. Tonal Center: f. Structure: aa1baS (4,4,4,4) =: Reprisenbar.