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Thread #49155   Message #741428
Posted By: masato sakurai
03-Jul-02 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers...
Subject: RE: Review: AN IRISHMAN'S EPISTLE
AN IRISHMAN'S EPISTLE TO THE OFFICERS AND TROOPS AT BOSTON is in the DT, with midi. This song (text only; title is "The Irishman's Epistle"; the word "bums" is deleted) is in Frank Moore, Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution (1855; reprinted by Kennikat Press, 1964, pp. 92-94), which says on the song:

"This happy production of "Paddy," must have been very popular with "the rebels," as there were four different editions of it published as broadsides, a short time after its first appearance, in the Pennsylvania Magazine. The version subjoined, was printed in May, 1775, and differs slightly in language from that contained in the periodical."--Moore, p. 92.

The lyrics (without music) are also printed in Edward Arthur Dolph, Sound Off!: Soldier Songs (Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929, p. 495).

~Masato