739. Dis Morning
'Dis Morning.' Sung by Walter J. Miller, Trinity College, Durham, December 5, 1919. (Negro fragment). "Heard at a minstrel show a few years ago." Cf. also ANFS 222.
F-638
Dis gets up and puts on my Sun - day clothes, —
And down de street I goes. meets old Broth - er Mose;
He hits me on my nose, And down I goes, And dat's all knows.
Scale: Irrational (2,4), plagal. Tonal Center: b-flat. Structure: abbe (4,4,4.2)
:= nmmo = inverted barform plus coda. Every phrase cadences on I. The tonal center is the highest tone. Circular tune (V).