Captain Wedderburn's Courtship

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

The Laird o' Roslin's Daughter, Six Questions, Mr, Woodburn's Courtship,

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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English

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I gave my love a cherry without a stone
I gave my love a chicken without a bone
I gave my love a ring without an end
I gave my love a baby with no crying.

How can there be a cherry without a stone ?
How can there be a chicken without a bone?
How can there be ring without an end?
How can there be a baby with no crying?

A cherry when it's blooming it has no stone
A chicken when it's pipping it has not bone
A ring when it's rolling it has no end
baby when it's sleeping it has no crying.

Child, 46 Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 12

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