My Pretty Quadroon, Sheet Music 08

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

Lovesickness--Songs and music

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --Songs and music

Enslaved persons--Songs and music

Pretty Quadroon

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

Pathos
My Pretty Quadroon

O, who was as happy as I
She'd a brow like the blossoming pea
and the light of her violet blue eye
was shown on a darky like me.

Her face was exceedingly fair,
She'd a cheek like the wild rose of June
and the ringlets of her dark glossy hair was the
pride of my pretty Quadroon.

My pretty Quadroon,
my flower that faded so soon
My heart like the strings of my banjo
was broke for my Pretty Quadroon.

Brown, Additional Songs - 711

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