Elva Dore

DESCRIPTION: A soldier, Elva Dore, dying "in the lowlands," asks his comrades to write a letter to his home. Tell Mary I love her, mother not to mourn, and sister not top weep but to cheer mother.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (recording, Mrs. Hannah Gatts Rogers)
KEYWORDS: love request war death nonballad patriotic mother sister lover soldier
FOUND IN: US(MA)
Roud #24827
RECORDINGS:
Mrs. Hannah Gatts Rogers, "Elva Dore" (in BayardCollection, video 22 ("Mrs. Hannah Gatts Rogers" starting at 07.18))
File: RcElvaDo

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