Charming Beauty Bright

One leaf handwritten on the front side. The document is in excellent physical condition. The document was laminated. The upper left corner was folded into the laminate. Page one of this document is missing. The informant citation follows the song text.

Ballads, English -- North Carolina Courtship -- Songs and music Lovesickness -- Songs and music Death -- Songs and music

The First Girl I Courted, Seven Year Song, The Beauty, Beauty Bride

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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Oh then I was struggling like a man that was slain
I scarce could be brought to my senses again
Crying O, O, O, O, the pain that I do hear
My true love is in the grave & I long to be there

And when I was brought to my senses again
I took pen & ink and wrote down the same
Come all true hearted lovers come pity pity me
Come pity my heart's fortune and my sad misery

I threw myself down all on the green grass
And xAx lay till my body was layed to the earth
Now all truehearted lovers that passes thereby
May know that is the place where John
Hanfield did die

Nov 18 1892 Ruth E Jones

Charming Beauty Bright

Ruth Emeline Jones [Mrs. R. E. Barnes], 1834-1924

Ruth Barnes mother of Elizabeth Deal and grandmother of Sue Campbell

Taylorsville, Alexander County, North Carolina

1892-11-18

Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 88 Randolph, 86 Cox, 103

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