This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.
Tags: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, English love ballads, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 5, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music sailors, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell
