Immortal Songs of Camp and Field: The Story of Their Inspiration, Together with Striking Anecdotes Connected with Their HistoryBurrows Brothers Company, 1898 - 298 pages |
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Advance the flag American arms army band battle cry Battle Hymn bears a plant Bells of Scotland Blue Bells born Boston boys brave Charles Carroll Sawyer cheer Columbia be slaves composed cry of Freedom dead dear earth bears Emmett Ethel Lynn Beers famous song father flag of Dixie Francis Miles Finch Freedom reigns to-day glory hallelujah grave Gray heart heaven Highland laddie hurrah Hutchinson John Brown's body Joseph Hopkinson Jubilee land liberty Look marching through Georgia Maryland melody mother nation ne'er night o'er old camp ground patriotic peace poem popular Rhine rolls its waves sang sea rolls Sherman Shouting the battle sing soldiers sons of Columbia soul is marching South Southern star-spangled banner stars Stephen Collins Foster sung tears thee Thomas à Becket Tramp Union forever union of lakes verse Waiting the judgment Walter Kittredge words written wrote Yankee Doodle young
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Page 147 - Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear. Many are the hearts that are weary to-night, Wishing for the war to cease, Many are the hearts, looking for the right, To see the dawn of peace.