The Silver Dagger

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.

Ballads, English

Love--Songs and music

Social classes--Songs and music

Suicide--Songs and music

An Awful Warning, The Dying Lovers, O Parents, Parents, All Take Warning, Katie Dear, The Warning Deaths

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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Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 72
Randolph, 139
Laws, G 21
Cox, 109
Combs, 76
Sharp, 165