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Thread #85111   Message #1575658
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Oct-05 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Crambambuli / Krambambuli
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: CRAMBAMBULI
Are these temperance songs to the music of "Krambambuli"? The tune appeared in the Sacred Harp as 'German' ca. 1845 according to one source; is this correct?

These words from the Second Cavalry version, provided by Jack Leonard, who served with the Second Cavalry in the West in the 1880s.

We'll ride to hell or victory
For we're the Second Cavalry.
Cram bam bam bu li
Cram-bam-bu-li.

From E. A. Dolph, 1942 ed., "Sound Off," p. 515.

Christoph Friedrich Wedekind, 1709-1777, published the words in 1745 (pseudonym Crescentius Coromandel). The tune is an old German one, composer not known ("folk"), 18th c. or earlier. It was used in the Sacred Harp (See Burke's posts).
Wedekind wrote the "Anacreontic Ode," also under the name Coromandel.

A version in Finnish, with music, here: http://www.tyy.fi/laulukirja/pdf/krambambuli.pdf
The song was well-known at Heidelberg and other European universities.