Title
Billy Grimes the Drover, Sheet Music 06
Description
One leaf with preprinted staff lines handwritten in pencil on the front side. The document is in good physical condition. The document was laminated. There are paper clip rust stains at the upper left corner. There is a handwritten check mark at the lower right corner.
Subject
Ballads, English Courtship -- Songs and music Avarice -- Songs and music
Alternative Title
Billy Grimes, Billie Grimes, the Drover
Publisher
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Rights
The images and audio files contained in the "So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue Ridge Mountains" collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. I. G. Greer/W. Amos Abrams Manuscript Files Series, Folksong Files Subseries. W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Special Collections. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Language
Musical notation, English
English
Transcription
Billy Grimes, the Drover
To_morrow morn I'm sweet sixteen, and Billy Grimes the Rover has popped the question
to me Ma, and wants to be my lover, to morrow morn, he says, Mamma, he's
coming bright and early, to take a pleasant trip with me a-
cross the fields of barley.
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