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Thread #55144   Message #1490677
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-May-05 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Youkaidi Youkaida (origins? texts?)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Youkaidi Youkaida (origins? texts?)
The "Upidee Song" as posted in Civil War version on 10 May 04, is printed in Allan's Lone Star Ballads," 1874, p. 144, with this title and information:

"That Bugler, or, the Up-I-Dee Song"
Written by the late sergeant A. G. Knight, Second Company Battallion Washington Artillery [CSA], New Orleans, LA.
Francis D. Allan, 1874, "Allan's Lone Star Ballads, A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs Made During Confederate Times. Burt Franklin, NY; reprint 1970, Lenox Hill (Burt Franklin), Research and Source Works Series 578, American Classics in History and Social Science 153.