Sharp diary 1918 page 164. Monday 10 June 1918 - Blue Ridge Springs
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Monday 10th of June 1918
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Breakfast at 6.30 & train to Dewey and thence to Mrs Donald, for the last time. We got several more from her but she is a vague inconsequent person and it is hard work pumping her — but worth the trouble. Then to Mrs Bowyer from whom we extracted several more including quite a wonderful tune to the "Little Merchant’s Daughter" and a nice variant of "Geordie". Then we called on Mrs Long who was "sick" and couldn’t sing so we tramped back 3 or 4 miles home along a dusty road in an intense heat arriving in a state of sweat & collapse — Maud worse than I on this occasion. After lunch, a rest and tea wrote out my tunes. I find I have taken down between 70 & 80 in this last week — a record. In the evening walked round to Bob Bradley’s, got some more songs from him and sang several ourselves. His son played the banjo and a man did a very spirited hoe-down after which Maud danced Lumps of Plum Pudding & None so Pretty to my singing accompaniment, much to everyone’s delight! Home to bed pretty tired.Location
USA : West Viginia : Blue Ridge Springs [0,0]
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