Daemon Lover, 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

Adultery--Songs and music

Ocean travel--Songs and music

The House Carpenter (Said an Old True Love)

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

The House Carpenter

Well met, well met, my old true love. Well met, well met, he cried,
For I'm just returning from the salt, salt sea. And it's all for the love of thee.

Child, 243 Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 40

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