The Wife of Usher's Well or Lady Gray

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

Ghosts--Songs and Music

Mothers--Songs and Music

Children--Songs and music

There was a Lady in Merry Scotland, Three Babes, The Three Little Babes, Lady Gay,

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

Child, 79
Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 25
Randolph, 19
Cox, 14
Combs, 22
Sharp, 22