Bonny Barbara Allan, Sheet Music 02, 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.

Ballads, English

Lovesickness--Songs and music

Death--Songs and music

Barbara Ellen

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

Barbara Allen

It was in the merry month of May when the fiery buds were swelling young
Willie Gray on his death bed lay for the love of Barbara Allen.

Child, 84 Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 27

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