Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 05

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.

Ballad, English

Sailors--Songs and music

Soldiers--Songs and music

Reunions--Songs and music

Love--Songs and music

Pretty Fair Maiden in the Garden, Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, A Sweetheart in the Army, The Single Sailor, Gay Young Sailor, The Returning Soldier, The Rugged Soldier, Edward, The Single Soldier, A Sailor's Sweetheart, Pretty Maid, Seven Long Years He has Kept Me Waiting, Pretty Fair Maid, The Broken Sixpence, A Pretty Fair Maid All in the Garden, The Brave Soldier, The Maiden in the Garden, The Sailor's Return, A Pretty Fair Maiden, The Broken Token, A Fair Maiden, The Fair Damsel, Soldier Boy, Hattie Bell, Hattie Belle

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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Brown. Older Ballads - Mostly British - 92 Randolph. 55 Laws. N 42 Cox. 92 Combs. 106 Sharp. 98

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