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Thread #34299   Message #2075632
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
13-Jun-07 - 08:00 AM
Thread Name: songs about cider
Subject: RE: songs about cider
Try this chestnut with your cider -- from http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=381

"The Harrison Yankee Doodle," William Henry Harrison campaign song

"The Harrison Yankee Doodle" from the recording entitled Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996, Folkways 45051, provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. © 1999. Used by permission.

Melody: "Yankee Doodle Dandy;" arranged by Oscar Brand/TRO-Hollis Music, Inc., BMI

Harrison's Presidential campaigns were marked by hundreds of songs. "The Harrison Yankee Doodle" magnifies his military accomplishments using a familiar melody and celebrates the very rural "log cabin and hard cider" the previous song makes fun of.

Partial lyrics:
"Come swell the throng and join the song
Make the circle wider
Join the round for Harrison, Log Cabin and Hard Cider
With Harrison our country's won
No treachery can divide her
Thy will be done
With Harrison, Log Cabin and Hard Cider …"