Lyr Add: Turn The Rascals Out: Republican 1888

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Turn The Rascals Out: Republican 1888
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 02:20 AM

True Blue Republican Campaign Songs Table of Contents

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Turn The Rascals Out: Republican 1888
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 02:15 AM

I have the songbook - missing a back cover. Original price $0.15, but I think I gave them about $1.00 for it at an antique shop in Blackwell OK a year or two ago. I couldn't find the mate: Red Hot Democratic Songs for 1888 that's advertised on the inside cover.

I think I posted a table of contents in the "Toot Toot Tootsie" tune req thread a couple of days ago, and chico asked for a handful of them.

I've scanned the whole book now, but the full thing is about 12.2 MB as scanned - more than most email services will allow. I could cut the dpi a bit and probably get them in a couple of emails if you want to PM an email addy. I've got a few more to transcribe for chico. Don't know when I'll get around to it, but I should be dribbling another 4 or 5 in as Lyr Adds.

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Turn The Rascals Out: Republican 1888
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:27 PM

Are you the lucky possessor of an original of this? I couldn't find it at American Memory. Entering Republican in category 'Music' brings up a bunch of them, however.
Of interest to me because I have some 19th c. family correspondence that discusses politics; my paternal great grandfather and grandfather and their families were rabid Republicans.

Subject: Lyr Add: Turn The Rascals Out: Republican 1888
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:52 PM

True Blue Republican Campaign Songs for 1888
Copyrighted by S. Brainard's Sons, Chicago

TURN THE RASCALS OUT
R. Campaign

Arranged for solo voice (S:) with choir response (CH:)
No time signature given, but notation implies 6/8
Notation in F

S:            (F)The Dem's have long been howling,
CH:         (F)"O turn the rascals out!"
S:            (F)For years they've kept on growling,
CH:         (C)"O turn the rascals out!"
S:            (F)"They're wasting all our riches"
CH:         (C)"O turn the rascals out!"
CH:         (Bb)Those thieves will steal our breeches: (C)turn them out.*
S:            (F)At last with all their howling
CH:         (F)They turned the rascals out.
S:            (F)Like hungry wolves a prowling
CH:         (C)They rushed in with a shout!
S:            (F)And then, to be explicit
CH:         (F)They jumped the treas'ry fence
CH:         (Bb)And (F)found the great de – fic – (G)it,
CH:         (F)What do you think? – Two cents.

*Solo Bass echo "Turn them out"
Except for phrase endings, which are sustained, the only deviation from quarter-eight-quarter-eighth rhythm is in the last line, where "what do you" is straight eights. Each phrase starts with an eighth pickup.
All CH: phrases are marked forte.
The final "What do you think Two Cents" is marked pianissimo
Final "Two cents" solo bass, descending C to F, dotted quarters.
Chords picked from score, and not verified by playing.
Most solo lines are a simple "c F G a b c F"
Choral responses are mostly fixed monotone – like a shout?

John