Lyr Req: Ranger's Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: GUEST,DS
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 10:29 PM

Does anyone know anything about a song associated with the War of 1812 called, "The Ranger's Song,", please?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:56 PM

Hi, DS - can you tell us anything else about the song? - have you heard it, and do you recall any snippets of the lyrics? How do you know about it? Any further information may help us find it.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 01:06 AM

Ranger(s) are mentioned in several old songs (Girl I Left behind Me, Wicklow Rangers, etc.), but I can find none particularly associated with the War of 1812.

Could the 'Ranger' be a ship? I am thinking of John Paul Jones and his eighteen-gun Ranger, but that was some 35 years before 1812.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: ragdall
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 03:43 AM

Found this information. If you think it may be the song you are looking for, maybe you can get further information by contacting Bob Dyer, or the Boonslick Historical Society?

War of 1812 Symposium
Arrow Rock to Host War of 1812 Symposium
Mar 10, 2006, 09:30
ARROW ROCK, Mo. -- The 16th Annual War of 1812 in the West Symposium will be held March 25-26 at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site in Arrow Rock. Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the First United States Infantry, Nathan Boone's Company of Missouri Rangers, the event will be held in the site's visitor center.
The symposium will open each day at 8 a.m. with presentations beginning at 9 a.m. and it is free and open to the public.
...
Saturday, March 25
...
1 p.m. -- The "Ranger's Song" performed by Bob Dyer,
Boonslick Historical Society, Boonville.

Found: Bob Dyer

Found:
Boonslick Historical Society
P.O. Box 324
Boonville, MO 65233

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: GUEST,DS
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:43 AM

ragdoll - That's exactly where I'd heard about it and that's exactly all I know about it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: DannyC
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:30 AM

The 88th Regiment of Foot (a/k/a The Connaught Rangers) were stationed at Fort Erie (facing southward from Ontario) in 1814. My g-g-g-geandfather O'Dowd was among them. (Please don't tell my neighbors that g/g/g grandpappy was a redcoat.)

On a side note, I privately hold a suspicion that the reference "over hills and mountains, and to Amerikay" in the chorus of the march "Whiskey You're The Devil" originates with the Rangers.   The troop had been decimated while being repeatedly sent into hard fighting situations under Wellington in the Peninsular Campaign and sent back to Ireland from Lisbon to be reconstituted in 1812 - making them available for use in North America.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: GUEST,DS
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:21 AM

DannyC - Are you saying the, "Ranger's Song," is a variation on, "Whiskey You're The Devil?"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: GUEST,DannyC
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:03 PM

I am suggesting that the regiment might have been the subject of the "Rangers' Song". Don't know the song...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ranger's Song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 10:12 PM

Dyer explains (link by Ragdal) that the songs are (mostly) his originals and cover a wide range of subjects.

I listened to a few of the clips- some I thought were good, but others (Springfield Mountain, e. g.) --- not to my taste.