Okay, I don't quite know where to start. Well, when I was little we had this series of tapes. They were stolen ^H^H^H ahem, copied, unfortunately, so I don't know what the originals looked like or who published them. They were marked Volumes I through III, and fit on six tapes. The songs were sung by a single man and woman, and the man also introduced each one with a short monologue. Each volume covered a different period of American History. The volumes, and some of the songs I can remember on each, are below in no particular order: I: Revolutionary and Early America When I First Came to This Land The Constitution and the Guerriere Paper & Pins Bennington Riflemen Tobacco's but an Indian Weed The World Turned Upside Down Greenland Whale Fisheries (maybe) Cumberland Gap (civilian version) Barbry Allen Didn't listen to that one much, I'm afraid.:) II: Civil War Wait for the Wagon Dixie Lay Ten Dollars Down Hold the Fort (For I am Coming) When Johnny Comes Marching Home John Brown's Body Battle Hymn of the Republic Treasury Rats We Are Coming, Father Abram (With Three Hundred Thousand More) Tenting Tonight All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching Rally Round the Flag (three versions -- patriotic, battle, and Confederate) Marching Through Georgia Cumberland Gap Wearing of the Gray Bonnie Blue Flag
something about a draftee's mother, to the above tune, with the chorus, "They took him to the arms of Abraham" Yellow Rose of Texas I'm a Good Old Rebel and a LOT of slave songs and hymns including: Nicodemus Follow the Drinking Gourd Year of Jubilo Can you tell this was my favorite? :) III. Western something about the Galveston cyclone Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) Plains of the Buffalo Sweet Betsy From Pike something about two soldiers dying at the Little Bighorn Jesse James Sam Bass That's all I can remember. It may have come out in the early '60s, as I remember the man saying the Civil War occurred "over a hundred years ago," but we probably copied it in the late 70's or early 80's. These songs hold a lot of memories for me and I have been wondering who made the tape for a long time. I want to find it again. If the above list is familiar to you, please post. Thank you, Jennifer
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