Lynchburg Town

Warning: Item contains racist language. 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--North Carolina

Theft--Songs and music

Hunting dogs--Songs and music

Hens--Songs and music

Get on Down to Richmond Town, Get Along Down Town, Down to Lynchburg Town, I'se Gwine Down to Town, Git Along Down Town, Going Down to Town, Lebeck Town, Goin' Down to Town

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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Somebody stole my old coon
dog.
I wish they’d bring him back
He run the big nigger
over the fence
And the little’un through
the crack.

Somebody stole my old blue hen
I wish they’d a let her be
She laid two eggs on every day
And Sunday she laid three

Ruth Grogan, 1912-

Brown, Blackface Minstrel, Negro Songs - 415 Combs, 231 Warner, 181

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