Blind Girl, Sheet Music 02
 


Citation

“Blind Girl, Sheet Music 02,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 10, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/31396.


Comments

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Title

Blind Girl, Sheet Music 02

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

Ballads, English
Remarriage--Songs and music
Death--Songs and music
Blind children--Songs and music

Alternative Title

Blind Girl's Prayer

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

Format

PDF
Notated music

Language

English

Transcription

The Blind Girl

They tell me Father, that tonight you wed another
bride. That you will clasp her in your arms where
my dear mother died.

Scholarly Classification

Brown, Older Ballads - 149 Randolph, 724

File name

113_BlindGirl_Sheet_02