757. Dry Bones

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.'