Honest Girl

This item is part of the W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collection, which includes some 400 individual song titles, most of which have multiple variants. Dr. Abrams recorded songs primarily from the Appalachian region of North Carolina from 1938 to 1946 and transcribed them in 1973. Like the I. G. Greer Collection, the titles contained in Abrams’ collection range from traditional Child Ballads to 19th century popular music to compositions of local origin.

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I Went to Church Like an Honest Girl Should

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

1933

Abrams, W. Amos (William Amos), 1904-1991

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Song texts

English

Text

1930s

Honest Girl

Mrs. Samuel Harmon

Reference to this title, in the repretoire of Mrs. Ether Harmon of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee, appears in "A Check List of the Titles of Tennessee Folksongs" by Edwin C. Kirkland, THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE, Vol. 59, No. 234. (Oct. - Dec., 1946), pp. 423-476. It is not known what relationship, if any, there is between these two women.