Ore Knob, Sheet Music 02

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

Miners--Songs and music

Salvation--Christianity--Songs and music

Death--Songs and music

Warnings--Songs and music

Mine accidents--Songs and music

The Ore Knob Song

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

Ore Knob.

Come blooming youth in the midst of day, and see how soon some pass a-way. There were two men worked with us there, what became of them you soon shall hear.

Brown, Native American Ballads - 211

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