Last Fierce Charge, Sheet Music 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.

Friendship--Songs and music

Last words--Songs and music

Death--Songs and music

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music

The Battle of Gettysburg, The Last Fierce Charge of the French at Waterloo, The Last Fierce Fight, The Battle of Fredericksburg

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

Tragic love song

The Two Soldiers.

It was just before the last fierce charge,
two soldiers drew their reins,
with a parting word and a touch of the hand.
They might never meet again.
One had blue eyes and curly hair,
nineteen but a month ago.
There was red on his cheeks and down on his chin, he was only a lad you know.

Brown, Native American Ballads - 231 Randolph, 234

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