760. O Bear Me Away on Your Snowy White Wing
[The hymn is usually titled, Angel Band]
'O Bear Me Away on Your Snowy White Wing.' Sung by Thomas Litaker, Trinity College, Durham. He gave the text in 1919; the tune, however, was recorded either in 1920 or in 1921. Newman I. White notes: "This is a line from a hymn sung by white people." A Negro fragment. It was sung by a negro tenant on a farm in Cabarrus county. Our tune is incomplete as it has only the second group of two lines given in ANFS 125. The melodic line of the first two measures is the same as that for 'Hanging Johnnie' in this volume, F-678.
F-6S9
bear me a - way on your snow- y - white wing,
bear me a - wav on your snow - y - white wing.
Scale: Hexatonic (4). Tonal Center: g. Structure: aa^ (2,2). (Fragment.) Circular tune (V).