The Crow SongReprinted 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. Note that the informant's account shows how written sources such as family books influenced the oral tradition.
Related to this Writer June 2, 1942, Wise, Virginia, by Mrs. Ethel Levell, mother of two children and who has given other material to this Writer and of whose parents and life this Writer has already submitted a brief but fact History. She learned this Crow Song from an old Irish-Scotch-and English Ballad Book she had in her home for many years. It was handed down to her from some Grandparent but has been misplaced. She recalls the words and lines to it however well enough to recite same below. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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