Okay, I don't quite know where to start. Well, when I was little we had this series of tapes. They were stolen ^H^H^H ahem, copied, unfortunately, so I don't know what the originals looked like or who published them. They were marked Volumes I through III, and fit on six tapes. The songs were sung by a single man and woman, and the man also introduced each one with a short monologue. Each volume covered a different period of American History. The volumes, and some of the songs I can remember on each, are below in no particular order:

I: Revolutionary and Early America

When I First Came to This Land The Constitution and the Guerriere
Paper & Pins
Bennington Riflemen
Tobacco's but an Indian Weed
The World Turned Upside Down
Greenland Whale Fisheries (maybe)
Cumberland Gap (civilian version)
Barbry Allen

Didn't listen to that one much, I'm afraid.:)

II: Civil War

Wait for the Wagon
Dixie
Lay Ten Dollars Down
Hold the Fort (For I am Coming)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
John Brown's Body
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Treasury Rats
We Are Coming, Father Abram (With Three Hundred Thousand More)
Tenting Tonight
All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching
Rally Round the Flag (three versions -- patriotic, battle, and Confederate)
Marching Through Georgia
Cumberland Gap
Wearing of the Gray
Bonnie Blue Flag

something about a draftee's mother, to the above tune, with the chorus, "They took him to the arms of Abraham"
Yellow Rose of Texas
I'm a Good Old Rebel
and a LOT of slave songs and hymns including:

Nicodemus
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Year of Jubilo

Can you tell this was my favorite? :)

III. Western

something about the Galveston cyclone
Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?)
Plains of the Buffalo
Sweet Betsy From Pike
something about two soldiers dying at the Little Bighorn
Jesse James
Sam Bass


That's all I can remember. It may have come out in the early '60s, as I remember the man saying the Civil War occurred "over a hundred years ago," but we probably copied it in the late 70's or early 80's. These songs hold a lot of memories for me and I have been wondering who made the tape for a long time. I want to find it again. If the above list is familiar to you, please post.

Thank you,
Jennifer