John Reilley, Sheet Music 04

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

Courtship--Songs and music

Love--Songs and music

Homecoming--Songs and music

Sailors--Songs and music

John Reilly, George Reilly, John Riley, John Riley's Courtship, George Riley, The Constant Damsel

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

John Reiley

As I walked out one morning early all for to take the sweet morning air,
T'was there I spied a young Irish lady who seemed to me like diamonds fair.

Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 93 Randolph, 56 Cox, 95

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