Kitty Wells!
Boston: Sold at Wholesale by Charles Emerson at B. Leverett Emerson’s, c. 1860.
Very good. Broadside/song sheet, 6.25” x 9.5”. Mild creasing, a few marginal losses. Very good. Although apparently English in origin, this song of mourning by a “darkie” for a lost love went through many American iterations (with slight variations and attributions to different lyricists and composers) during the antebellum and Civil War periods and appeared in several popular songsters of the late 1860s. Only one example of this version located in OCLC, at Middle Tennessee State. Variant of Wolf, American Song Sheets, #1199; Roud 2748.
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