Pale Wildwood Flower, 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

Unrequited love--Songs and music

Flowers--Songs and music

The Frail Wildwood Flower, The Wildwood Flower

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

Raven Black Hair

I'll twine with these locks of raven black hair the roses so red & the lilies so fair,
the myrtle so bright with its emerald hue and the pale arameta with eyes of dark blue.

Brown, Folk Lyric - 263 Randolph, 798

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