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Thread #107724   Message #2235727
Posted By: Rapparee
13-Jan-08 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: German-American Music Hall Songs
Subject: German-American Music Hall Songs
I'm familiar with Irish-American songs (e.g., "McNally's Row of Flats," "Finnegan's Wake," et.) of the music-hall genre. (I'm defining this as commercially written and performed, usually comic or bathetic, rather than springing from the "folk experience." They can be rooted in shared experiences, of course.)

But are there any similar songs "defining" German-Americans? Yes, there are some about the time of the US Civil War, such as "I Goes To Fight Mit Siegel" but are there others?