757. Dry Bones
'Dry Bones.' Sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Turkey Creek, Buncombe county. No date given. For similar texts cf. JAFL xxxv 242 ; Mellows 53; also NS 102 (different text).
F-656
Dry Bones — in the val - ley
Get up and take a littie walk.
The deaf could hear,
And the dumb could talk
I saw the hght from
heav - en
Stanza 2
the light come down.
Scale: Mode III, plagal. Tonal Center: f. Structure: abc (2,3,3), certainly not a common structure.
2nd stanza:
'Old Enoch he lived to be
Three hundred and sixty-five
When the Lord come and took him
Back to heaven, alive, I saw,
I saw the light come shining
I saw the light come down.'