IN GRANDMA'S DAYReprinted in AppLit with
permission from the James Taylor Adams Collection Collected by James M. Hylton Wise, Virginia NOTE: This text was recopied directly from a typewritten copy in the archives of the Blue Ridge Institute. James Taylor Adams (1892-1954) kept typewritten copies of the folklore he and others collected during the last thirty years of his life, while he lived in Wise County, VA. Typographical errors in the original have not been corrected, except for some obvious errors in spacing. In the third stanza, "lokking" is surely supposed to be "looking."
Related to this Writer April 15, 1942, Norton, Virginia, by Mrs. William, (Bill) Tolliver, who has given this Writer other material elsewhere among these pages and who thinks this old Ballad is a pretty good one. It is among the many she has saved, written or found of interest among the mountain songs and sayings. It was among many that she has kept and she knows not where it originated, saying that it just accumulated with the lot.
[JTA-9497] Replacement photocopy made by BRI, 9/1992 copyright 2007 U
of Virginia's College at Wise/Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College AppLit
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