Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan-online book

A Collection of 200+ traditional songs & variations with commentaries including Lyrics & Sheet music

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Unhappy Love
3*
B
Sung in 1935 by Mrs Clara Sheldon, Alger, who was born near Paw Paw, Michigan. She learned the song from her mother, who came to Michigan in i860 from near Port Dover, Canada Mrs. Sheldon related the story, but could sing only one stanza.
Sung by Mr. Charles Atwood, Greenville, in 1937. Mr. Atwood was born near Munith, Michigan, 1869, of English, Scotch, and German ancestry He remem­bered hearing this song in his childhood, but could sing only a fragment.