Last Fierce Charge, Sheet Music 01
 


Citation

“Last Fierce Charge, Sheet Music 01,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 8, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/31659.


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Title

Last Fierce Charge, Sheet Music 01

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

Friendship--Songs and music
Last words--Songs and music
Death--Songs and music
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music

Alternative Title

The Battle of Gettysburg, The Last Fierce Charge of the French at Waterloo, The Last Fierce Fight, The Battle of Fredericksburg

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

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

Format

PDF
Notated music

Language

English

Transcription

Tragic love song

The Two Soldiers.

It was just before the last fierce charge,
two soldiers drew their reins,
with a parting word and a touch of the hand.
They might never meet again.
One had blue eyes and curly hair,
nineteen but a month ago.
There was red on his cheeks and down on his chin, he was only a lad you know.

Scholarly Classification

Brown, Native American Ballads - 231 Randolph, 234

File name

113_LastFierceCharge_Sheet_01

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