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 Ballad of the Return of the Dead, ballads, English ballad, Lady Gay, Lady Grey, lyric variant 2, Moravian Song, Scots ghosts, songs and music children, songs and music mothers, The Lady and the Children Three, The Lone Widow, The Three Little Babes, The Three Little Babs, The Three Pore Little Children, The Wife of Ushers Well, There was a Lady, There was a Lady in Merry Scotland, Three Babes, Wife of Usher's Well
