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: A Ship Set Sail for North America, English ballad, Golden Vallady, He Had a Little Tool, Lonesome Low, Low, Low in the Lowlands, Lowland Lonesome Low, Sailing in the Lowlands Low, Sailing on the Lowland Low, Scots naval battle, Sinking in the Lonesome Sea, songs and music betrayal, Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity); lyric variant 4, The Bold Grandee, The French Gallerie O, The Gold China Tree, The Golden Fenadier, The Golden Furnity, The Golden Vanitee, The Golden Victory, The Gouden Vanity, The Goulden Vanitee, The Green Willow Tree, The Kumadee, The Little Cabin Boy, The Lonesome Sea, The Lowland Sea, The Lowlands Low, The Mary Golden Tree, The Merry Golden Tree, The Pirate Ship, The Spanish Canoe, The Turkey-rogherlee and the Yellow Golden Tree, The Turkish Rebilee, The Turkish Revoloo, The Weeping Willow Tree, There was a Bold Captain, Turkish Reveille
