Love-of-God Shave (Lather and Shave), 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.

Folk songs, English--United States

Folk songs, Irish--United States

Irish--Songs and music

Barbers--Songs and music

Shaving--Songs and music

Paddy and Barber, Lather 'Em, Shave 'Em, The Irish Barber

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

Paddy and the Barber

It was in this town & not far from this spot.
A barber once set up a neat little shop.
He was so good natured & his smile was so sweet.
It was said he could coax people out of the street with his lather and shave 'em, lather-&-shave 'em,
latherum-shave 'em & frizzle 'em free.

Laws, Q 15 Warner, 178

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