Faithful Friend, Lyric Variant 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.

Folk songs

Friendship--Songs and music

Farewells--Songs and music

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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Caldwell County (N.C.)

Faithful, Friend.

My Bark Of life was tossing down.
The troubled sea of time.
When first I saw your smiling face.
When youth was in its prime.
Then lifes dark hours were turned to life.
My sorrowed heart set free.
And ever since that time youv been .
A faithful friend to me.

Chorus,

It matters not where ere I roam .
Where ever you may be .
If ever I have had a friend.
Youve been that friend to me.

One bright look from your blue eys.Dispeels a cloud of strife
And sends its rays of sunshine downe.
My wearied path of life.
I now look back upon the pst.
Across lifes stormey sea.
And smile to think amid lifes scene.
Youv been thatbfriend to me.

Chours .

The time has come that we must part.
I give this ring to the.
I place it on thy finger dear.
That you may think of me.
Hers my hand and hers my heart .
I give them boath to the.
And if I never more come back,
I hope youl think of me.
Mrs Alice Cook.

Sarah Alice Sherrill [Mrs. Alice Cook], 1867-1937

Brown, Additional Songs - 687

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