Song: O Death

Artist:Bessie Jones
Written by:traditional
Recording date:1960
Language:English
First release:On audio album Georgia Sea Island Songs (1977)
Comments:aka "Conversation With Death". This might be the very first recording of the song. Some debate on its authorship: Barbara Chandler claims that the writer is her father-in-law Lloyd Chandler. Bessie Jones stated she learned it from his grandfather, while Dock Boggs wrote he had learned it from his brother-in-law, the singer Lee Hunsucker.

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I Will Follow Him by Little Peggy March was originally written by Arthur Altman, Norman Gimbel and performed by Petula Clark in 1963.

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