Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Appalachian music

I love little Willie, I do.

Folk song ‘I Love Little Willie I do’ collected by Bess Brown Lomax “American Ballads and Folk Songs” MacMillan, 1934

The Mountain dulcimer, also known as the Appalachian dulcimer, lap dulcimer, or fretted dulcimer, is basically a fretted zither.

When I was a single girl, I went dressed very fine, Now I am married and have a drunken man to mind. Oh, I wish I were a single girl again.

John Jacob Niles released this song on ‘Early American Carols and Folksongs,’ an album of four 78 rpm discs in fall 1940.

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