Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Sunday 9th of June 1918

Transcription Notes

A very cold night again even with overcoats on the beds as well as extra blankets! Breakfast rather late — at 8.45 — and then write up tunes, sitting on verandah. Last week was one of the best weeks I have ever had. I took down 62 tunes including some very fine ones indeed. The Virginian tunes are the best I have yet got, though the words are poor and we do not get many ballads. The folk songs are dying out here slowly but surely just as in England. Everyone has known them, it is just a matter of recalling them. And we get most of them from oldish people. After tea called at Ed Donald’s but drew a blank. Then at his suggestion went to see Bob Bradley from whom we got several rather nice ones. Sitting under the trees with him & his family was very pleasant; he sang & we sang in return much to their delight. We promise to go in again one evening.

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USA : West Viginia : Blue Ridge Springs [0,0]

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