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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Thomas S. Brown, Compiler, Lyrics of Folk Songs Sung By Lillie Newton Cooper, A&M 3544, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Copies of transcribed typed and hand written lyrics of folk songs as sung by Lillie Newton Cooper (1888-1965). The songs include:

I'll Twine Mid the Ringlets

The Gold Harp

Johnny Came a Courting

Blue Eyes

Baggage Coach Ahead

Sweet Birds

Rosewood Casket

Two Orphans

The Drunkards Love Child

True Love

Cocoanut Grove

Kitty Wells

We Shall Know Each Other There

The Blind Girl

Lonesome Road

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

On Top of Old Smoky

Red River Valley

The Fatal Wedding

No Home

Jack and Joe

Early Early in the Spring

A Prisoner for Life

I'm a Poor Old Bachelor

Young Charlotte

Down in the Valley

Little Willie

Careless Love

Charles Katawha

I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers

New River Train

Wait Mr. Postman

Go Away Willie

There is also a copy of the first two pages of Lillie Newton Cooper's book of poetry, 'The Ways of Life', with a short biographical sketch, and a copy of lyrics of an untitled folk song heard in Harrison County, West Virginia during the late 19th century.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Cooper, Lillie Newton.
• Folk music -- West Virginia -- Braxton County