Seven Long Years I've Been Married, 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.

Marital conflict--Songs and music

Alcoholism--Songs and music

Regret--Songs and music

Warnings--Songs and music

Folk songs--United States--North Carolina

Beautiful Light Over the Ocean, Beautiful Light On the Ocean, Don't Never Marry a Drunkard, Seven Long Years

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

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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English

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Mattie McNiel [Martha Rebecca McNeil], 1897-1980

sister to Anna McNeil, student of Dr. Greer

Mollie

Effie Martin

Brown, Drink and Gambling Songs -- 29
Randolph, 337