Carl Van Doren, "Some Play-Party Songs from Eastern Illinois," p. 491, collected two verses; 'We're marching down to old Quebec, ...' and 'The wars are all over, and we'll turn back, ...' Sung in Vermillion Co. up to about 1890, collected from Mr. and Mrs. Muncie in 1907.
"... there was no special connection ... between the words and the event in the mind of those who sang the song."
JAFl, vol. 32, no. 126, 1919.