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and e	Origins: Salvation Army/Throw a Nickel on the Drum (55* d)	RE: Origins: Salvation Army/Throw a Nickel on the Drum	24 May 20
One of the most familiar sights in America is a little knot of Salvation Army preachers at a street corner blaring fundamentalist hymns on brassy horns and bawling a kind of gutter confessional which is blended of Jeremiah and Bernarr Macfadden. Usually the straggling audience sheepishly ignores that childhood rhythm: "Put your nickel on the drum, on the drum." From *The Nation* 1929. See google books preview here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nation/rzoTAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22nickel+on+the+drum%22&dq=%22nickel+on+the+drum%22&printsec=frontcover This snippet confirms at least the belief that The Salvation Army used the song and as a sort of confessional.

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