Perry's Victory

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.

Popular music--United States

Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813--Songs and music

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819--Songs and music

Heroes--Songs and music

Perry's Victory at Lake Erie

Bennett, John

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.,Mrs. Sample

Ruth Barnes is the grandmother of Sue Campbell

Sue Campbell, 1897-1968

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

1857-11-01