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Lighter	Origins:There Was an Old Soldier / Old Tobacco Box (47)	RE: Origins:There Was an Old Soldier / Old Tobacco Box	30 Aug 24
The Chicago Daily Tribune of Jan. 5, 1890, actually gives the tune (along with the "soldier and sailor" words), which though unidentified is clearly "The Red-Haired Boy." The earliest appearance of the "splinter from his leg" stanza appears to be in Sandburg's "American Songbag" of 1927. He says the song was a favorite of Civil War veterans. Sandburg's tune is little less like "The Red-Haired Boy."

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