752. Old Folks Better Up and Git to Bed
'Old Folks Better Up and Git to Bed.' Sung by Thomas Litaker, Trinity College, Durham, December 5, 1919. MS score and record. Singer said: "This is a Work Song from Cabarrus county." (Negro fragment.) Cf. ANFS 299.
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Old folks bet - ter up and git to bed
Be- Wfore the young folks git the de - bil in their heads.
Scale: Mode III, plagal. Tonal Center: g. Structure: ab (4,4).