Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America / Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts, with an Introduction and Notes

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No. 145
[REMEMBER SINFUL YOUTH] or SOLEMN THOUGHT, SOH 29

Pentatonic, mode 2 (I — 3 IV V — 7)

Remember, sinful youth, you must die, you must die,

Remember, sinful youth, you must die;

Remember, sinful youth, who hate the way of truth

And in your pleasures boast, you must die, you must die;

And in your pleasures boast, you must die.

Uncertain are your days here below, here below,

Uncertain are your days here below,