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Classification Title	Little Rosewood Casket, Lyric Variant 01
Document Title	Rosewood Casket
Alternative Titles	A Package of Old Letters; The Rose-Bud Casket; There's a Rosewood Casket; Little Rosebud Casket
Informant(s)	Mamie Hagaman, 1892-1988
Geographic Location	Beaver Dam, Watauga County, North Carolina
Subject	Ballads, American -- North Carolina Last words -- Songs and music Letters -- Songs and music Lovesickness -- Songs and music
Scholarly Classification	Brown, Native American Ballads - 273 Randolph, 763
Description	One leaf of lined paper, handwritten in pencil on both sides. The document is in poor physical condition. The document was laminated. There is significant lamination-related creasing on the document. The upper left corner and the lower left corner were folded into the laminate. Major portions of the upper right corner and the lower right corner were torn away. There are numerous minor and moderate tears on the document. There are minor stains of unknown origin throughout the document. The document was folded horizontally and vertically into quarters. The informant citation follows the song text.
Dimensions, Original	201 mm x 273 mm
Publisher	W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributors	I. G. Greer
Upload Date	2007-05-08
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	2006-07-27
Scan By	Paul L. Robertson
Transcribe Date	2006-07-31
Transcribe By	Paul L. Robertson

Classification Title	Little Rosewood Casket, Lyric Variant 01, Page 1
File Name	little_rosewood_01_p1.tif
Transcript	1st Rosewood Casket Ive a little rosewood casket sitting on the marble stand tis a package of old letters written by my sweet hearts hand 2nd go and bring them to me mother and sit down upon my bed lay your head upon my pillow my poor aching heart most dead 3rd I will listen while you read them and perhaps I’ll fall asleep fall asleep and wake with jesus dearest – mother do not weep 4th When I’m dead and in my coffin I’ll be crowded all around and my bed will hollowed in some lonely church yard ground 5th He is coming thro [ ] the [ ] mother met him [ ] him I’ll forgive [ ] [ ]’re no more. 6th

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