Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, 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, English--United States

Ballads, Irish--United States

Murder--Songs and Music

Courtship--Songs and Music

Song Ballot of Lord Thomas

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

Lord Thomas - or The Brown Girl

Come, Father, come Mother, Come riddle my soul, tell this riddle to me.
Which d' ye think it would be the most to me to marry fair Ellen or the Brown girl, girl or to bring the Brown girl home.

Child, 73 Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 19 Randolph, 15 Cox, 10 Combs, 18 Warner, 140 Sharp, 19

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