Poor Married Man, Sheet Music

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

Marriage--Songs and music

Husbands--Songs and music

Mothers-in-law--Songs and music

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

The Poor Married Man.

You may talk of the joys of the sweet honey moon, I'll a -gree they are nice while they last. But in most every case they are over too soon and are numbered with things of the past

The trials and the trouble are sure to begin al -
though you may do what you can, you'll wish you were out of the clatter and the din the follows the poor married man.

Chorus:
With the racket and the muss, the trouble and the fuss. His face all haggard and wan, you can tell by his clothes where-ever he goes that he is a poor married man.

Brown, Folk Lyric - 309

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