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    Soldier Songs and Love Songs
    Soldier Songs and Love Songs
    Soldier Songs and Love Songs
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    Soldier Songs and Love Songs

    By A. H. Laidlaw

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    Soldier Songs and Love Songs by A.H. Laidlaw is a collection of songs about the American Civil War. Excerpt: "Foiled on the field with his dead boys around him, All waiting for Earth to recover her own, Fortune hath missed him, but Glory hath found him While fighting a thousand fierce foemen alone. Custer's the right wing, the left, and the center, Himself is his only reserve and supply. This is a battle for Spartans to enter, Where One makes an army to conquer or die."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 16, 2019
    ISBN4064066195854
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      Soldier Songs and Love Songs - A. H. Laidlaw

      A. H. Laidlaw

      Soldier Songs and Love Songs

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066195854

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      SONGS

      CUSTER.

      THE AMERICAN GIRL.

      THE GOOD SHIP OHIO.

      THE AMERICAN GIRLS.

      THE UNION OATH.

      BETSIE BROWN.

      SWORD OF JEHOVAH.

      BLACK EYES.

      THE AMERICAN ÇA IRA.

      BIRD OF THE SUMMERING NORTH.

      THE WAR SONG OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

      THE LIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES.

      BABYLON.

      THE BRITISH GYP.

      DEATH SONG OF THE ENFANTS PERDUS.

      FARE THEE WELL, O LOVE OF WOMAN!

      EVER TO BE.

      JOCK AND JEAN.

      THE FLAG OF BROTHERS.

      WITH A HO-HO-HO! AND A HI-HI-HI!

      SEE THE FIELD OF BATTLE GLEAMS.

      THE DYING SOLDIER TO THE NIGHTINGALE.

      BURKE OF THE BRAVE BRIGADE.

      TEARS, TEARS.

      SHERRY IN THE SADDLE.

      HOME! HOME!

      THE CUSTER WAIL.

      WEEP NOT FOR HIM.

      TARRY YE NOT IN EGYPT.

      GIF A LASSIE SPURN A LADDIE.

      THE AMERICAN CONSUMMATION.

      THE YOUNG VETS.

      MAIDEN KNICKERBOCKER AND THE GALLANT CAPTAIN PICKWICK.

      IT IS TIME TO BEGIN TO CONCLUDE.

      MARSHAL NEY'S FAREWELL.

      THE LILY LAND OF FRANCE.

      THE THREE P'S.

      THE PRATIE, THE PIG AND POTEEN.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      In issuing this collection of Songs, the author makes the following acknowledgments:—

      "The American Ça ira" was suggested while reading the French song of that name, from which song the phrase ça ira alone was appropriated.

      In The Song of William the Conqueror, his characteristic oath, By the splendor of God! is used.

      In the Death Song of the Enfants Perdus, a few remembered lines or fragments have been appropriated from an anonymous and almost forgotten English ballad.

      Burke of the Brave Brigade was written in memory of the late Dennis F. Burke, the last commander of the Irish Brigade in the battle of Gettysburg.

      The Custer Wail was composed in a dream, in 1877.

      In the last two stanzas of Marshall Ney's Farewell, his own language translated is used in nearly half the lines. The first line of this poem is the expression used by Napoleon, on his voyage to St. Helena, when sighting the shore of France for the last time.

      The Lily Land of France was suggested by the French song, Partant pour la Syrie, from which nothing was appropriated but the accentual movement.

      Except in the above mentioned instances, the songs here collected were composed without finding a model or a suggestion in any other writer.

      The

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