[Music]
Young women all, I pray draw near,
Listen a while and you shall hear
How sin and Satan both did try
To land my soul in misery.
The full text is reproduced in _White Spirituals_, 186f. The tune is
closely related to 'McAfee's Confession', Sharp, ii., 15 and 16. John
Powell notes in connection with this song: "I have collected this tune
often as 'Young People Who Delight in Sin' and it is always
mixolydian." He then makes the suggestion: "Why not take out the
_g_-sharp from the signature? In that case the modal indication would
be heptatonic mixolydian, mode 3 a + b (I II III IV V VI 7)."
No. 10
DYING CALIFORNIAN, OSH 410