584. I Don't Love Old Satan

584. I Don't Love Old Satan

A

From Ella Smith. Pitt county ; undated. "Negro fragment."

I I don't love old Satan.
(Jld Satan don't love me.
And under the circumstances
Me and old Satan don't ajrrce.

 

C horus: I'se gwine to Mount de Zion,
My beautiful home.

2 1 stepped in de water.
And the water was cold ;
Got a free body,
And I want a free soul.

B

Another copy from the same informant, in which the order of stanzas
I and 2 is reversed, and the chorus reads :

I'm gwine to ]\Iount Zion, my beautiful home.
I'm gwine to Mount Zion. my beautiful home.
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584
I Don't Love Old Satan

 

'I Don't Love Old Satan.' Sung by Miss Mary Barbour, Raeford, Holt
county, in 1922. As frequently, our contributor is a different singer from the
one mentioned in III 631, A version.

F-511


it don't like or Sa tan. or
Sa - tan don't like

 

me, And un - dor the cir - cum - stanc - es

Me and old Sa - tan don't gree.

I'se gwine — to Mount Zi - on, My beau-ti - ful home.

Scale: Mode IH, plagal. Tonal Center: e-flat. Structure: abaib^a^b^
(2,2,2,2,2,2) = aa^a^ (4,4,4).