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Thread #7118   Message #2190783
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Nov-07 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune?
Subject: Lyr Add: A NEW SONG—UP TO DATE (V. G. Mays)
For historical interest, here's one from Spanish-American War Songs: A Complete Collection of Newspaper Verse During the Recent War with Spain, edited by Sidney A. Witherbee, 1898. I can't say I'd want to sing it, though:

A NEW SONG—UP TO DATE.
(V. G. Mays.)
Tune—Marching Through Georgia.

Play our school piano and we'll sing another song—
Sing it with the spirit that is worthy of our throng—
Sing it as we ought to sing it, voices good and strong—
While we are shouting for Cuba.

CHORUS. Hurrah! Hurrah! We're setting Cuba free.
Hurrah! Hurrah, we'll make the Spaniards flee.
So we'll sing the chorus here at home, while out at sea
Our boys are gaining the victory.

Have you read the papers? Have you heard the joyful sound?
How our gunboat Nashville has a Spanish transport found.
How our own "Pat" Mullen, by his cannon turned it 'round
As it was steaming to Cuba.

Don't forget the day on which this warfare was begun—
April twenty-second, at the rising of the sun.
Hardly had they 'wakened 'fore they heard report of gun,
And they were turning from Cuba.

Soon we've captured many steamers that belong to Spain,
Pedro, Catalina, Miguel Jover, now are gain;
Saturnina, Panama and Guido we'll retain
While we are fighting for Cuba.

Not alone their steamers but their schooners are our prey;
For Mathilda, Canelita could not get away;
Sofia, Candidia, Antonio will stay
While we are fighting for Cuba.
(April 27, 1898.)

In the harbor of Manila was our first affray,
And our Dewey was the victor on the first of May—
While the Spanish squadron, like the old Armada lay,
And we were gaining Manila.
(May 3, 1898.)

When in Santiago Bay, Cervera put their fleet,
Hobson's sunken Merrimac them bottled up so neat,
'Til July the third, forth they filed to sure defeat
That Schley's fleet gave them near Cuba.
(July 6, 1898.)

FINAL CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! Spain's driven from the seas.
Hurrah! Hurrah! She's sued for terms of peace,
For we've Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
In days fourteen and a hundred.
(Aug. 16, 1898.)