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Thread #69769   Message #2196099
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-Nov-07 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add:Thanksgiving Song/Swing the Shining Sickle
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Swing the Shining Sickle
Here's the catalog data from The Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:It's odd that the publication date is 1954 when the composer died in 1921. This might mean it was the second time the song was published, owing to some sort of revival of popularity.

I also found the following interesting quote, in "Freedom Under Fire: U.S. Civil Liberties in Times of War" by Michael Linfield, 1990:Apparently this was a famous incident, mentioned in several other books, but I couldn't get a long quote from any of them.