Songs Written By from "The Spinning Wheel" Girls

Songs Written By from "The Spinning Wheel" Girls

Folk songs

Spinning Wheel (Firm : Asheville, N.C.)

In December 1928, a group of weavers from The Spinning Wheel shop, referring to themselves as "The Spinning Wheel Girls" gave Clementine Douglas a looseleaf volume of lyrics from mountain folk songs. Douglas saved the pages and added to them over the years. Some of the women who contributed to the collection were: Ettamae Harwood Deweese, Flonnie Harwood, Myrtle Jump, Bessie Willis, Pearl Hamlin, Mary Rathburn, Ollie Peek, Ruth Ledford, and Ethel S. Carter. The songs included here are: Careless Love, The Salem Courtship, Barbare Allen, Birmingham Jail, Drunkards Dream, Standing in the Moonlight, Little Birdie, Little Willie, Midnight on the Stormy Deep, New River Train, Love Henry, On Top of Old Smokey, Knoxville Gal, Little Rose Wood Casket, and Weaving Song. A photograph of some of the women can be viewed in the image titled ["The Spinning Wheel" Girls].

Douglas, Clementine

Clementine Douglas Papers

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1928-12-25

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manuscripts (documents)

eng

Text

15778

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2009-01-07

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Asheville (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

6.75" x 3.75"(dimension)

Craft Revival