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Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 04, Copy

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 Fair Maiden, A Pretty Fair Maid All in the Garden, A Pretty Fair Maiden, A Sailor's Sweetheart, A Sweetheart in the Army: The Single Sailor, ballad, Edward; The Single Soldier, English love ballad, Gay Young Sailor, Hattie Bell, Hattie Belle, Pretty Fair Maid, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden; lyric variant 4, Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden, Pretty Maid, Seven Long Years He has Kept Me Waiting, Soldier Boy, songs and music reunions, songs and music sailors, songs and music soldiers, The Brave Soldier, The Broken Sixpence, The Broken Token, The Fair Damsel, The Maiden in the Garden, The Returning Soldier, The Rugged Soldier, The Sailor's Return

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 04

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 Fair Maiden, A Pretty Fair Maid All in the Garden, A Pretty Fair Maiden, A Sailor's Sweetheart, A Sweetheart in the Army: The Single Sailor, ballad, Edward; The Single Soldier, English love ballad, Gay Young Sailor, Hattie Bell, Hattie Belle, Pretty Fair Maid, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden; lyric variant 4, Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden, Pretty Maid, Seven Long Years He has Kept Me Waiting, Soldier Boy, songs and music reunions, songs and music sailors, songs and music soldiers, The Brave Soldier, The Broken Sixpence, The Broken Token, The Fair Damsel, The Maiden in the Garden, The Returning Soldier, The Rugged Soldier, The Sailor's Return

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 03, Copy

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 Fair Maiden, A Pretty Fair Maid All in the Garden, A Pretty Fair Maiden, A Sailor's Sweetheart, A Sweetheart in the Army: The Single Sailor, ballad, Edward; The Single Soldier, Gay Young Sailor, Hattie Bell, Hattie Belle, Pretty Fair Maid, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden; lyric variant 3, Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden, Pretty Maid, Seven Long Years He has Kept Me Waiting, Soldier Boy, songs and music reunions, songs and music soldiers, The Brave Soldier, The Broken Sixpence, The Broken Token, The Fair Damsel, The Maiden in the Garden, The Returning Soldier, The Rugged Soldier, The Sailor's Return

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 03

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 Fair Maiden, A Pretty Fair Maid All in the Garden, A Pretty Fair Maiden, A Sailor's Sweetheart, A Sweetheart in the Army: The Single Sailor, ballad, Edward; The Single Soldier, English love ballad, Gay Young Sailor, Hattie Bell, Hattie Belle, Pretty Fair Maid, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden; lyric variant 3, Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden, Pretty Maid, Seven Long Years He has Kept Me Waiting, Soldier Boy, songs and music reunions, songs and music sailors, songs and music soldiers, The Brave Soldier, The Broken Sixpence, The Broken Token, The Fair Damsel, The Maiden in the Garden, The Returning Soldier, The Rugged Soldier, The Sailor's Return

Briscom Farmer, Lyric Variant 01

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: Briscom Farmer, folk songs, songs and music, songs and music farmers, songs and music love, songs and music marriage, songs and music reunions

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Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 04, Copy

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 04

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 03, Copy

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 03

Briscom Farmer, Lyric Variant 01

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