Sourwood Mountain, Lyric Variant 01
 


Citation

“Sourwood Mountain, Lyric Variant 01,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 7, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/19510.


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Title

Sourwood Mountain, Lyric Variant 01

Description

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.

Subject

Folk songs
Courtship--Songs and music
Birds--Songs and music

Alternative Title

Sourwood Mountains, Chickens A-Crowing in the Sourwood Mountains, Old Man, Old Man

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

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

Format

JPEG

Language

English

Type

Text

Associated Date

0000-06-22

Scholarly Classification

Brown, Folk Lyric - 251
Randolph, 417

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