Ore Knob, Sheet Music 02
 


Citation

“Ore Knob, Sheet Music 02,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/31778.


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Title

Ore Knob, 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

Folk songs--United States
Miners--Songs and music
Salvation--Christianity--Songs and music
Death--Songs and music
Warnings--Songs and music
Mine accidents--Songs and music

Alternative Title

The Ore Knob Song

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

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

Format

PDF
Notated music

Language

English

Transcription

Ore Knob.

Come blooming youth in the midst of day, and see how soon some pass a-way. There were two men worked with us there, what became of them you soon shall hear.

Scholarly Classification

Brown, Native American Ballads - 211

File name

113_OreKnob_Sheet_02

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