Description
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.
Subject
Murder--Songs and music
Last words--Songs and music
Courtship--Songs and music
Folk music--Appalachian Region
Ballads
Alternative Title
Florilla, Blue-Eyed Ella, The Lone, Lone Valley, Down in a Lone Valley, The Love Valley, Floella's Death, Annie, My Darling, The Lone Green Valley, Pearl Bryant, Way Down in Lone Green Valley, Fair Young Ellen, Edward and Annie, Fair Emily, Pearl Bright, The Jewish Lover, The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, The Weeping Willow, Pearl Bryan (II), Nell Cropsey (II), Floella
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