Lyr Req: The Valiant Conscript (Civil War song)

Subject: LYR TO CIVIL WAR SONG (POSSIBLY)
From: phinque
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 02:21 PM

I HEARD SONG SUPPOSEDLY SUNG BY YOUNG MAN WHO WAS HANDED A GUN AND TAUGHT TO SHOOT AND FIGHT. HE IS LAMENTING EVER HAVING BEEN TAUGHT THESE SKILLS. DON'T KNOW WHO ACTUALLY SANG IT. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ANYONE AND IF SO WHAT IS THE S

Subject: RE: LYR TO CIVIL WAR SONG (POSSIBLY)
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 02:25 PM

It sounds like "Kuiama" by The Electric Light Orchestra...but then again, that's 70's art rock and not a Civil War song. Sorry...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: LYR TO CIVIL WAR SONG (POSSIBLY)
From: raredance
Date: 01 Nov 99 - 08:43 PM

Go to the search in the upper right and type in "conscript". You will come up with two songs on the subject. "The Valiant Conscript" to the tune of Yankee Doodle comes from the Civil War era. "The Willing Conscript" was written by Tom Paxton in the 1963, a hundred years later. Some things just never seem to change.

rich r