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Classification Title	Blind Girl, Lyric Variant 01
Document Title	The Blind Child Prayer
Alternative Titles	Blind Girl's Prayer; The Blind Child; The Blind Child's Prayer; Blind Girl's Death; The Blind Girl's Death
Informant(s)	Effie Martin
Informant(s) Note	student of Dr. Greer
Geographic Location	Ferguson, Wilkes County, North Carolina
Subject	Ballads, English -- North Carolina Blind children -- Songs and music Remarriage -- Songs and music Death -- Songs and music
Scholarly Classification	Brown, Older Ballads - 149 Randolph, 724
Description	Four leaves of lined paper, handwritten in pencil on the front sides of leaves one through three and on the front and reverse sides of leaf four. The document is in fair physical condition. The document was laminated. The top left corner of both the third and fourth leaves was torn away. There are numerous stains of unknown origin throughout the document. The document was folded horizontally into fourths, possibly for mailing. The informant citation is handwritten at the top edge of the first leaf. There is a handwritten "8 underneath the informant citation.
Dimensions, Original	127 mm x 202 mm
Publisher	W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributors	I. G. Greer
Upload Date	2007-04-27
Type	Manuscript
Format	JPEG
Language	English
Rights	The images and audio files contained in the "So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue Ridge Mountains" collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. I. G. Greer/W. Amos Abrams Manuscript Files Series, Folksong Files Subseries, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Scan Date	2006-10-02
Scan By	Paul L. Robertson
Transcribe Date	2006-11-14
Transcribe By	Sarah C. Tonkin

Classification Title	Blind Girl, Lyric Variant 01, Page 1
File Name	blind_girl_01_p1.tif
Transcript	Effie Morton 8 The Blind Child Prayer 1 They tell me father tonight that, You wed another bride That you will clasp in your arms Where my dear mother died. 2 That she will lay her graceful head, Upon your manly breast Where she who now lies low in death In lifes last hours did rest. 3 They say her name is Mary, too The name my mother bore But father is she kind and true Like the one you loved before

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