Take This Letter to My Mother, Sheet Music 01

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.

Popular music--United States

Mothers and sons--Songs and music

Letters--Songs and music

Prayers--Songs and music

Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907

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

Take This Letter To My Mother

Take this letter to my mother Far across the deep blue sea,
How she wept when first we parted How her heart did ache with pain -

It will fill her heart with pleasure. She'll be glad to hear from me.
When she said "Good bye, God Bless You We may never meet again.

1877

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