Title
I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree, Sheet Music 02
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
Popular music--Great Britain
Folk songs--United States
Unrequited love--Songs and music
Crusades--Songs and music
Alternative Title
Harp on the Willow Tree, The Saracen
Creator
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797-1839
Publisher
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributor
Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967
Transcription
Miscellaneous
I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree.
I'll hang my harp on a willow tree, I'm off to the wars a -gain. My peaceful home has no charm for me, the
battle field no pain, the lady I love will
soon be a bride, with a diadem on her brow Oh!
why did she flatter my boyish pride, She's going to leave me
now -
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