Sourwood Mountain, Sheet Music 04

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--United States

Courtship--Songs and music

Birds--Songs and music

Sourwood Mountains, Chickens Crowing on Sour Wood Mountain, Chickens A-Crowing in the Sourwood Mountains, Old Man, Old Man

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

Sourwood Mountain

I'se got a gal in the Sourwood Mountains
She's so good and kind.
She's broke the heart of many a poor feller,
but she aint broke this 'un of mine

Chorus

I'se got a gal in the Sourwood Mountains Hey!
Tank - Toodle - All the day!

Brown, Folk Lyric - 251 Randolph, 417

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