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Gene Graham Song ID Req: Shiloh? (16) ADD: THE SECESH (SHILOH)-John Hartford recording 07 Jun 97

Lots of good Civil War songs w/lyrics and quite a bit of historical data on this 1991 Columbia Cassette/CT 48607

THE SECESH (SHILOH) - Recorded by John Hartford - arranged by Howdy Forrester

(Refrain 3x with instrumental breaks)

I'll put my knapsack on my back

My rifle on my shoulder

I'm goin' away to Shiloh

And there I'll be a soldier.

LINER NOTES: John Hartford, who was taught this song by Howdy Forrester, a former fiddle player in Roy Acuff's band, explains that in middle Tennessee the Secessionists were known collectively as "The Secesh" and that it was a demonstration of bravery for men and boys to line up to enlist when there were battles on the scale of SHILOH being waged. Were you man enough to have fought at SHILOH? History records that 24,000 of the 100,000 participants in the Battle of Shiloh were either killed or wounded.

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