Dark Hollow, 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.

Folk songs--United States

Unrequited love--Songs and music

Lovesickness--Songs and music

Courtship--Songs and music

East Virginia Blues

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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Dark Hollow

I wish I was in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine.
To think you would be some other man's darling
To never more on earth be mine.

When I am asleep I am dreaming about you,
And when I'm awake I see no rest.
Every moment seems like an hour.
But Oh, these pains across my breast!

I used to live in East Virginia.
South Carolina was my home.
There I courted a fair little lady,
But her name I did not know.

Her hair was of some dark brown color,
And her cheeks were rosy red.
On her breast she wore white lilies.
I wish to the Lord I was dead.

I wish I was on some foreign island
Where the sun don't never shine
To think you would be some other man's darling
To never more on earth be mine.

Randolph, 676 [partial]

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