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: (Dandoo) Wife Wrapped in a Wether's Skin, As the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley, Cooper of Fife, Dan Dhu, Dan-doo, Dan-You, Danyou, folk songs, Gentle Fair Jenny, Gently Jinny Fair Rosemary, Hobblety Bobblety How Now, Hollin Green Hollin, Jennifer Jenny, Jenny Fair Gentle Rosemarie, Jenny Flow Gentle Rosemary, John Dobber, Old Dandoo, Old Wetherskin, Robertin Tush, Robin-a-Thrush, Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero, songs and music, The Cooper o’ Fife, The Daughter of Peggy O, The Dew Flies Over the Green Valley, The Farmer's Curst Wife, The Green Valley, The Old Man Who Lived in the West, The Wee Cooper o’ Fife, The Wether's Skin, There was an Old Man Who Lived Out West, Ti Risslety Rosslety, While the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley, Wife Wrapped in a Wether Skin, Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin, Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin