Author Topic: Favorite War era song (Read 2565 times)

El Confederado · « **on:** February 07, 2004, 07:36:43 PM »

Well y'all, what is your favorite War era song?

Ramrod · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2004, 08:01:17 PM »

Umm, I think i'ts called The Battle Hymn Of The Republic.

El Confederado · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2004, 08:04:26 PM »

Ya know Ramrod, there are two versions of that song, one Union and one Confederate.

rocklock · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2004, 02:28:11 PM »

In no particular order...

Battle Cry of Freedom

Bonnie Blue Flag

Roll Alabama Roll

Marching Through Georgia

Asbjorn1954 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2004, 05:21:18 PM »

These are the lyrics, absent the chorus, for the Battle Hymn of the Republic. (What is the Confederate version?)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
l can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Jacktheknife · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2004, 06:33:23 PM »

I was reading ... just reading and saw favorite song... and thought My favorite song from the mid-1800s is Bonnie Blue Flag...
But Rocklock beat me to it! That is fine I am kidding, when I checked it out I was gratified to see someone else appreciated the Bonnie Blue Flag too!
I think I will go strap on the old accordian and hit it!
HHHHUUUURRRRAAAAAAAAAA!
HHHHUUUURRRRAAAAAAAAAA!
YOUR SONS HAVE GONE TO WAR......

OH YEAH!
J. Knife

dodgecity · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2004, 07:05:17 PM »

Shenandoah!! (I guess that's a period piece.) I've been to rendezvous encampments, and as darkness falls, there's nothing sweeter than the sound of Shenandoah being played by a distant dulcimer in the darkness. Of course, I also have to give a vote to Dixie, Bonnie Blue Flag, and Gary Owen. Any of those could inspire a Quaker to action. Course, I'm also partial to any number of tunes on one or more banjos (the more banjos, the better.)

El Confederado · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2004, 08:30:57 PM »

Well I think I will go with--

Bonnie Blue Flag
Dixie
When Johnny comes marchin home
Shenandoah
Ora Lee
Southern Wagon
Im a Good old Rebel
Garry Owen
Lorena
Ashokan Farewell
Battle Cry of Freedom, North and South version
Rose of Alabama

doc_kreipke · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:01:17 AM »

EVERYBODY likes "Bonnie Blue Flag," including myself. Cute trivia: It was originally an Irish drinking song, which is probably why it has such a catchy melody. Curiously, the composer of the lyrics, a popular Southern entertainer, defected to the north late in the war. Subsequently, the song kinda lost some of its regional popularity. :-)

historybuff · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2004, 02:39:09 PM »

As a kid I had an old 45 record with civil war songs. I always liked Bonnie Blue Flag. It seemed quite spirited. I also like "Eating Goober Peas". I liked the laid back irreverence of the lyrics.

Dutch/AL · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2004, 07:31:24 PM »

http://mariah.stonemarche.org/livhis/goodolrebel.htm

1. Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
;For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

2. I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic too;
I hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.

3. I hates the Yankee nation
and everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union
tis drippin' with our blood
I hates their striped banner,
I fit it all I could.

4. I followed Ol' Marsh Roberts
for four years, nearabout,
got wounded in three places
and starved at P'int Lookout:
I cotched the rheumatism
a'campin' in the snow;
but I killed a chance o' Yankees,
I'd like to kill some mo'.

5. Three hundred thousand Yankees
is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.

6. I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo',
But I ain't a-goin' to love' em,
Now that is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.

historybuff · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2004, 01:25:36 PM »

Who wrote those lyrics, Charles Manson?

Dutch/AL · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2004, 02:25:17 PM »

historybuff,

Charles Manson lived about 80 to 100 years after the Civil War. Your failure to research is showing. Maybe you should consider changing your handle, or polish up. The internet is a great resource and it's free in most cases.

FYI, several writers have been given credit for this piece, but credit is generally given to Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A.

historybuff · « **Reply #13 on:** February 26, 2004, 11:30:57 PM »

It was meant to be sarcastic.

Dutch/AL · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:13:49 AM »

So was mine. :grin:

Sundown Holly · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2004, 05:42:26 PM »

I would have to say my favorite song to come out of the Civil War was Lorena.

Can Chaser Kate · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2004, 05:36:58 AM »

Anything Southern that Bobby Horton did are my Favorites. I have All of it in a 4 Cassette Tape Set.

Captain Hobo · « **Reply #17 on:** September 13, 2004, 12:38:51 PM »

My favorite song from that era is "Goober Peas!"