Title
Wilkins and His Dinah
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
Love--Songs and music
Fathers and daugthers--Songs and music
Suicide--Songs and music
Death--Songs and music
Tragedy in music
Ballads, English--United States--North Carolina
Alternative Title
Villikens and His Dinah, Billikins and His Dinah, Miss Dinah, Robert Lerow and His Dila, Sweet William
Publisher
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributor
Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967
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