Moulines Maria

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.

Folk songs, English--United States

Betrayal--Songs and music

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Songs and music

Unrequited love--Songs and music

Maria, 'Twas Near a Thicket's Calm Retreat, Sterne's Maria

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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Moulines Maria
It was near a thickets calm retreat,
Under a poplar tree
Maria chose her wretched seat,
To mourn her sorrows free.

Her lovely form was sweet to view,
As dawn at opening day
But ah! she mourned her love untrue,
And wept her cares away.

The brook flowed gently at her feet,
In murmur smooth a long!
Her pipe which once she tuned most sweet,
Had now forgot its song.

No more to charm the vale she tries,
For grief has filled her breast
Those joys which once she used to prize,
But loved has robbed her rest.

Poor hapless maid who can behold,
Thy sorrows so severe
And hear thy lovelorn story told,
Without a falling tear.

Maria luckless maid adieu,
Thy sorrows soon must cease!
For heaven will take a maid so true,
To everlasting peace.

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