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The Sour Apple Tree
- Creator:
- Oliver Ditson & Co., J. W. Turner
- Location:
- Massachusetts, Boston
- Origin Date:
- 1865
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0327
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Sheet Music
Description
This is a piece of sheet music for the song, “The Sour Apple Tree.” The cover features an illustration of a man wearing a dress and holding a knife and a bag of money running underneath a tree with a noose hanging from it. The title is printed in black lettering along the branch of the tree. “Or Jeff Davis’ Last Ditch” is printed on the tree trunk. 1 score (5 p.) For voice and piano. First line of text: Yankee boys have caught him, the traitor old Jeff D. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.