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Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 06

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: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, English love ballad, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 6, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music soldiers, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell

Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 05, Copy

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: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, English love ballads, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 5, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music sailors, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell

Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 05

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: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, English love ballads, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 5, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music sailors, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell

Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 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.

Tags: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, North Carolina love, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 4, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music sailors, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell

Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 03

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: ballads, Bring Me Back the One I Love, Captain Captain, Captain Oh Captain Tell Me True, Down by the River Side, English love ballads, Go Build Me a Boat, Moment's River Side, Oh Father, Oh Father Father, Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy; lyric variant 3, Soldier Boy, songs and music death, songs and music lovesickness, songs and music sailors, Susie's Search for Her Lover, Sweet William, Tell Me True Oh Captain Captain Tell Me True, The Lost Lover, The Pinery Boy, The Prentice Boy, The Sailor's Sweetheart, The Sweet Sailor Boy, There is a Town Where I Did Dwell

Jack Munro, Lyric Variant 03

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: Jack Munro, Jack the Sailor, Jack Went A-Sailing, Jackie Fraisure, Jackie Frazier, Jacky the Sailor Boy, Lily Lily Oh, Men's Clothes I Will Put On, Poor Jack is Gone a-Sailing, Poor Jack's Gone to War, Scots sailors, songs and music love, songs and music marriage, The Banks of the Nile, The Brisk Young Plow Boy, The Merchant's Daughter, The Sailor's Sweetheart, War Song

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