The Great Titanic

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.

Titanic--Songs and music

Shipwrecks--Songs and music

Shipwreck victims--Songs and music

Drowning--Songs and music

Social classes--Songs and music

Ballads

Disaster of the Great Ship, Sinking of the Titanic, Sinking of the Great Ship, Destruction of the Titanic, The Ship Titanic, God Moved on the Water

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

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

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English

Text

Mrs. Nathan Hicks [Rena Hicks], 1899-1975

12/18/1933

Brown, North Carolina Ballads - 287.