Earl Brand, Sheet Music 08
 


Citation

“Earl Brand, Sheet Music 08,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed November 8, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/31494.


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Title

Earl Brand, Sheet Music 08

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
Courtship--Songs and Music
Family Violence--Songs and Music

Alternative Title

Sweet William and Ellen, The Bold Soldier, Earl Bran, The Seven Brothers, Lord Douglas, Sweet William, The Seven Sleepers, Rise Ye Up, Lord Loving, Sweet Willie, Lady Margaret, Lord William and Lady Margaret, Fair Ellender, As He Rode Up to the Old Man's Gate, Sir William and Fair Ellendor, The Douglas Tragedy, The Seven King Sons

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

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

Format

PDF
Notated music

Language

English

Transcription

Sweet William and Fair Ellen


Sweet William rode up to the old man's gate, and boldly he did say, "The

youngest daughter she must stay at home, but the oldest I'll take away."

Scholarly Classification

Child, 7 Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 3 Laws, M 27 Cox, 2 Combs, 3 Warner, 79 Sharp, 4

File name

113_EarlBrand_Sheet_08

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