Lyr Req: The Cavaliers of Dixie

Subject: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: GUEST,Emir Yener
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 04:48 PM

hello all folks,

Ýs there a helpful soul who can gimme the lyrics of 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' ?

Cheers

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:30 PM

No luck finding lyrics. Where are you Sothrons at? Banjer??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:44 PM

Tried the War Between the States sites I have, but no luck. Am. Mem. doesn't seem to have it, nor does "War Songs of the South," 1862.
Where did Bobby Horton get this one? Or is it a revision of something?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:59 PM

Two lines only:
Ye cavaliers of Dixie
Who guard the southern shore
Your glorious sabers draw once more.
Now someone buy Horton's vol. 5 CSA Songs and post it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 08:01 PM

Hmmm. I think I ran across that one, let me go back and look.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 08:05 PM

I was wrong again. I must have found the same place you did, Dicho, with just the same lines.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Giac
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 08:30 PM

Got me, too. I've looked through my "Sothron" books and all my bookmarked sites. All I turned up was what has been mentioned.

Mary

Subject: Add: THE CAVALIERS OF DIXIE
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 09:23 PM

THE CAVALIERS OF DIXIE

"This song, which was very popular with the Southern troops, was written by Benjamin F. Porter. It was sung to the old tune, 'Ye Mariners of England,' which was composed in the eighteenth century by John Wall Collcott, an English organist."

Ye Cavaliers of Dixie!
Who guard the Southern shores,
Whose standards brave the battle storm
Which o'er our border roars
Your glorious sabers draw once more,
And charge the Northern foe;
And reap their columns deep,
And reap their columns deep,
And reap their columns deep,

Chorus:
Where the raging tempests blow,
Where the raging tempests blow,
And the iron hail in floods descends,
And the bloody torrents flow.

Ye Cavaliers of Dixie!
Though dark the tempest lower,
What arms will wear the tyrant's chains
What dastard heart will cower?
Bright o'er the night a sign shall rise
To lead to victory!
And your swords reap their hordes,
Where the battle tempests blow;
Where the iron hail in floods descends,
And the bloody torrents flow.

The South! she needs no ramparts,
No lofty towers to shield;
Your bosoms are her bulwarks strong,
Breastworks that never yield!
The thunders of your battle blades
Shall sweep the servile foe;
While their gore stains the shore,
Where the battle tempests blow;
Where the iron hail in floods descends,
And the bloody torrents flow.

The battle-flag of Dixie
With crimson field shall flame;
Her azure cross and silver stars
Shall light her sons to flame!
When peace with olive-branch returns,
That flag's white folds shall glow
Still bright on every height,
When strom has ceased to blow,
And the battle tempests roar no more;
Nor the bloody torrents flow.

O, battle-flag of Dixie!
Long, long, triumphant wave!
Where'er the storms of battle roar,
Or victory crowns the brave!
The Cavaliers of Dixie!
In woman's song shall glow
The flame of your name,
When the storm has ceased to blow,
When the battle tempests rage no more
Nor the bloody torrents flow.

SOURCE: Edward Arthur Dolph, "Sound Off!": Soldier Songs From Yakee Doodle to Parley Voo (Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929), pp. 228-231 (with music).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 09:25 PM

MASATO!! Do you own this book??? If not, where did you find it???? Holy cow, good job!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 09:34 PM

Great! Has anybody listened to Bobby Horton? Is he any good?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 09:46 PM

Sorcha, I bought the book two years ago at a Philadelphia used bookstore for $19.95. It was a good buy. Contains "325 songs and bugle calls from the American Revolutionary War to World War I with music and notes. The most substantial of the U.S. military song collections."(comment from SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MILITARY FOLKLORE).
~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 10:17 PM

Well, will wonders never cease. Truly amazing, Masato-sama.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Giac
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 10:25 PM

Geez, Masato! Thanks.

Mary

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 02 - 11:45 PM

Copies available from Abebooks, $14-75 depending on condition and what the dealer thinks he can get out of it. The 1942 revision has more than the earlier one.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 01:05 AM

According to Brunnings' Folk Song Index (Garland) and Ferguson's Song Finder (Greenwood), "Cavaliers of Dixie" is also in Henry S. Humphreys, Songs of Confederacy and Willard Allison Heaps, The Singing Sixties: The Spirit of Civil War Days Drawn from the Music of the Times (University of Oklahoma Press, 1960; words only), neither of which I've seen.
~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 01:34 AM

"Ye Cavaliers of Dixie" is a parody of "Ye Mariners of England." Bodleian Library has 10 editions of "Ye Mariners of England." One of them is THIS.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 03:24 AM

My thousands of thanks Masato-san!Youre wonderful!

(To all who wander who I am;I'm just a turkish student from Istanbul who loves everything linked to old south :) )

cheers to all

p.s:I strongly recommend to all to get this song from audiogalaxy,Bobby horton is perfect (like always)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 10:04 AM

Would anyone care to transcribe "Ye Mariners of England" (see Masato's link above) and post the lyrics here?

Subject: Lyr Add: YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 01:41 PM

YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND

Ye mariners of England,
That guard our native seas,
Whose flag has braved a thousand years
The battle and the breeze,
Your glorious standard launch again,
To match another foe,
As ye sweep through the deep,
While the stormy tempests blow;
While battle rages loud and long,
And stormy tempests blow.

The spirit of your fathers
Shall start from every wave;
For the deck it was their field of fame,
And ocean was their grave.
Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell,
Your manly hearts shall glow,
As you sweep through the deep,
While the stormy tempests blow;
While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy tempests blow.

Britannia needs no bulwark,
No towers along the steep,
Her march is over the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep.
With thunders from her native oak,
She quells the floods below--
When the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy tempests blow.

The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger's troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.
Then, then, ye ocean warriors,
Our song and feast shall flow,
To the fame of your name,
When the storm has ceased to blow;
When the fiery fight is heard no more,
And the storm has ceased to blow.

Bodleian Library, Ballads catalogue: 2806 d.31 (64) If anything, the original is worse poetry than the Southern remake.
Second verse of another version:

The spirit of your father will start from every wave,
The deck it was their field of fame, and the ocean was their grave,
Where Blake, the boast of freedom, fought, your many hearts will glow,
As you sweep through the deep, while the stormy winds do blow,
While the battle rages long and loud,
And the stormy tempests blow.

Harding B 25(2119) No mention of Nelson
For other versions: HERE
Enter name of song in Search and click Start Search.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Ye cavaliers of dixie' lyrics
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 02:04 PM

According to The Oxford Book of English Verse and the Univ. Toronto website, Thomas Campbell, 1774-1844 wrote this, pub. 1801. His title was Ye Mariners of England A Naval Ode.
I must get up earlier than Masato, so I thought I would save him some time by posting the lyrics. He will probably come up with more later on.