Title
Sourwood Mountain, Sheet Music 09
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
Courtship--Songs and music
Birds--Songs and music
Alternative Title
Sourwood Mountains, Chickens Crowing on Sour Wood Mountain, Chickens A-Crowing in the Sourwood Mountains, Old Man, Old Man
Publisher
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributor
Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967
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