Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 05
 


Citation

“Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 05,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 7, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/31804.


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Title

Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden, Lyric Variant 05

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

Ballad, English
Sailors--Songs and music
Soldiers--Songs and music
Reunions--Songs and music
Love--Songs and music

Alternative Title

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

Publisher

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Contributor

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

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Text

Scholarly Classification

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

File name

113_PrettyFairMaid_Lyric_05_ocr

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