Jimmy and Nancy

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.

Love--Songs and music

Abusive parents--Songs and music

Betrothal--Songs and music

Murder--Songs and music

Ghosts--Songs and music

Suicide--Songs and music

Ballads, English--United States--North Carolina

Jemmy and Nancy, The Barbadoes Lady

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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Ruth Emeline Jones [Mrs. R. E. Barnes], 1834-1924

Ruth Barnes grandmother of Sue Campbell and sister of William Jones

Sue Campbell, 1897-1968

her ballad collection from the William B. Jones family of Taylorsville, NC is in the UNC Chapel Hill library

William Jones, 1836-1918

1853

Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 61
Laws, M 38