Billy Boy, Sheet Music 01

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.

Folk songs

Wives--Songs and music

Cookery--Songs and music

Charming Billy, Billie Boy

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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Notated music

English

Billy Boy

Oh where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been charming
Billy? I have been to seek a wife, She's the joy of my life. She's a
young thing & cannot leave her Mammy.

Brown, Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes - 121 Randolph, 104 Cox, 168

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