Darling Cloe

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.

Folk songs--United States

Love--Songs and music

Homecoming--Songs and music

South Carolina--Songs and music

Darling Cloe, My Darling Cloe

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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Darling Cloe

In the old Palmetto states
where the sweet magnolia blooms
And the pickninna Darkies
used to hoe
There is one I long to see
She was always true to me
And I'm going home to see
my Darling Chloe

Cho-
Darling Chloe oh Darling Chloe
Then your sweet face I soon
shall see I know,
It is twenty yrs- or more
since I saw my darling Chloe
And I'm going home to see
my darling Chloe

This is all I can remember
of this and can't find it here
anywhere,
Love Mother

Combs, 172

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