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.
Tags: Annie My Darling, Blue-Eyed Ella, Down in a Lone Valley, Edward and Annie, Fair Emily, Fair Young Ellen, Floella's Death, Florella (The Jealous Lover), Florilla, Lone Valley, Pearl Bright, Pearl Bryant, songs and music, The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, The Jewish Lover, The Lone, The Lone Green Valley, The Love Valley, The Weeping Willow, Way Down in Lone Green Valley