Ella's Grave, Sheet Music 02

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

Death--Songs and music

Love--Songs and music

Tombs--Songs and music

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

Sweet Ella's Grave

Gentle zephyrs blow ye lightly on the place where sleeps the dead.
Over yonder ivy creeps 'tis the place Sweet Ella sleeps, Over yonder ivy
creeps, 'tis the place Sweet Ella sleeps.
Where the moonbeams shining brightly hovers round the narrow bed.

Brown, Additional Ballads - 319

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