Billy Grimes the Drover, Sheet Music 06

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

Courtship--Songs and music

Avarice--Songs and music

Billy Grimes, Billie Grimes, the Drover

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 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.

Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 193

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