O Death

O Death — also known as O, Death, Oh Death, and Conversations with Death — is a traditional American folk song.

Country blues banjo player Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (1898-1971) recorded the song in the late 1920s.^[1] A recording from the 1938 National Folk Festival held in Washington, D.C. is on file with the Library of Congress.^[2] Various folk music artists included Oh, Death on a variety of musical collections throughout the 1970s and '80s.^[3]

References

↑ "Wichita Eagle - Song 'Oh, Death' dates back to the late 1920s and was also recorded by Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers for the Library of Congress". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
↑ "Oh death". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
↑ Wichita Eagle, Op. cit.

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[1] "Wichita Eagle - Song 'Oh, Death' dates back to the late 1920s and was also recorded by Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers for the Library of Congress". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2015-03-28.

[2] "Oh death". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

[3] Wichita Eagle, Op. cit.

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