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Singing soldiers = The spirit of the sixties : a history of the Civil War in song / selections and historical commentary, Paul Glass ; musical arrangements for piano and guitar, Louis C. Singer ; foreword by John Hope Franklin.

Author/creator Glass, Paul
Other author/creatorSinger, Louis C., 1912-1966.
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Da Capo Press, 1975.
Descriptionxx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Subject(s)
Uniform titleSpirit of the sixties
Series A Da Capo paperback
Da Capo paperback. ^A910346
Contents Battle hymn of the republic / William Steffe -- Dixie<U+2019>s land / Dan Decatur Emmett -- The flag of Columbia / Harrison Millard -- The bonnie blue flag / The Irish Jaunting Car -- The bonnie blue flag with the stripes and stars / The Irish Jaunting Car -- Dixie, the land of king cotton / John Hill Hewitt -- Maryland, My Maryland / Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum -- Emancipation / Anonymous -- May God save the union / Carl Wolfsohn -- God save the south / Charles W. A. Ellerbrock -- Strike for the south / James Pierpont -- Battle cry of freedom / George F. Root -- Virginia Marseillaise / Rouget de L<U+2019>isle -- Melt the bells / Mrs. Dr. Byrne -- Wait for the wagon / R. P. Buckley -- The Abe-iad / F. Bartenstein -- Call <U+2018>em names, Jeff / George F. Root -- What<U+2019>s the matter? / Charles Boynton -- Sister Carrie / A. P. peck -- Uncle Sam, what ails you? / John M. Loretz -- Where are you going, Abe Lincoln? / Lord Lovel -- Jeff Davis<U+2019> dream / Bernard Covert -- Treasury rats / Anonymous -- Farewell father, friend and guardian / George F. Root -- Sherman the brave / J. E. Hynes -- The sword of Robert E. Lee / A. E. Blackmar -- Honor to Sheridan / George F. Root -- Stonewall Jackson<U+2019>s way / Anonymous -- Beauregard / H. D. -- O, I<U+2019>m a good old rebel / Wild Western Melody of Joe Bowers -- Riding a raid / The Bonnie Dundee -- Kingdom coming / Henry Clay Work -- Wake Nicodemus / Henry Clay Work -- Abraham<U+2019>s Daughter / Septimus Winner -- Johnny is gone for a soldier / Old Irish folk song -- You are going to the wards, Willie boy! / John Hill Hewitt -- The young volunteer / John H. Hewitt -- Take your gun and go, John / H. T. Merrill -- Corporal Schnapps / Henry Clay Work -- I goes to fight mit Sigel / Samuel Lover -- We are coming, father Abra<U+2019>am / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- We<U+2019>ll fight for uncle Abe / Frederick Buckley -- He<U+2019>s gone to the arms of Abraham / Septimus Winner -- To Canaan / C. A. Brainard, E. a. Kelly, W. E. Thayer -- Grafted into the army / Henry Clay Work -- Come in out of the draft / B. Frank Walthers -- How are you, conscript? / Frank Wilder -- The invalid corps / Frank Wilder -- Hard crackers come again no more / Stephen Collins Foster -- Boys, keep your powder dry / Fr. C. Mayer -- Tenting on the old camp ground / Walter Kittredge -- The upidee song / A. E. Blackmar -- Think of your head in the mourning / Charles L. Ward -- Here<U+2019>s your mule / C. D. Benson -- Short rations / Ye Comic -- Goober peas / P. Nutt -- The army bean / Sweet Bye and Bye -- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! / George F. Root -- Ellsworth avengers / Annie Lisle -- The Cumberland<U+2019>s crew / Anonymous -- The Alabama / F. W. Rosier -- The Alabama and kearsarge / Frank Wilder -- For bales / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- Little major / Henry Clay Work -- All quiet along the Potomac tonight / John Hill Hewitt -- The drummer boy of Shiloh / Will Shakespeare Hays -- Stonewall<U+2019>s Requiem / M. Deeves -- Our comrade has fallen / O. W. Brewster -- <U+2018>Twas at the siege of Vicksburg / Septimus Winner -- A life of the Vicksburg bluff / Henry Russell -- Hold the fort / P. P. Bliss -- When Sherman marched down to the sea / Old Rosin the Beau -- We are marching on the Richmond / E. W. Locke -- Marching through Georgia / Henry Clay Work -- Somebody<U+2019>s darling / John Hill Hewitt -- Lorena / J. P. Webster -- Aura Lea / G. R. Poulton -- Just before the battle, mother / George F. Root -- Never forget the dear ones / George F. Root -- Write a letter to my mother -- P. B. Isaacs -- The yellow rose of Texas / Anonymous -- The southern girl / The Irish Jaunting Car -- The southern soldier boy / Boy with the auburn hair -- Mother would comfort me / Charles Carroll Sawyer -- Who will care for mother now? / Charles Carroll Sawyer -- Pray, maiden, pray / A. J. Turner -- Foes and friends / George F. Root -- Weeping, sad and lonely / Henry Tucker -- When upon the field of glory / H. L. Schreiner -- We were comrades together in the days of war / Collin Coe -- We<U+2019>ve drunk from the same canteen James G. Clark -- Brother, tell me of the battle / George F. Root -- Tell me, is my father coming home? / Frederick Buckley -- When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- The vacant chair / George F. Root -- The songs we sang upon the old camp ground / H. L. Frisbie -- Wearing of the Grey / Wearing of the Green -- Good-bye, old glory / George F. Root.
General note1964 ed. published under title: The spirit of the sixties.
General noteFor voice and piano and/or guitar.
General noteReprint of the ed. published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1968.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 299-300.
Other titleSpirit of the sixties.
LCCN 75014127

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Music Music Stacks M1637.G6 S7 1975 ✔ Available Place Hold