Tune Req: Cheer Boys Cheer - midi needed

Subject: "Cheer Boys Cheer" midi needed
From:
Date: 28 Aug 98 - 10:22 AM

Need midi files for traditional tune, "Cheer Boys Cheer", that was popular in the mid 1800's. Can't find it anywhere. Need midi for background sound on website.

Help greatly appreciated, Scott Williams [e-mail]

Subject: Cheer Boys Cheer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Aug 98 - 03:06 PM

Hi - there are several songs at the Lester Levy Collection of Sheet Music - click here that might fit what you're looking for. Search under cheer boys. Hope that helps.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: SONG OF THE SOUTHERN BOYS / CHEER, BOYS,
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 01:19 AM

OK, I know no one asked for the lyrics, but since they haven't been posted before, I may as well post them here.

Transcribed from the sheet music images at The Library of Congress American Memory Collection:

SONG OF THE SOUTHERN BOYS
CHEER, BOYS, CHEER
Adapted by Herman L. Schreiner, 1861.

CHORUS: Cheer, boys, cheer! We'll march away to battle.
Cheer, boys, cheer, for our sweethearts and our wives!
Cheer, boys, cheer! We'll nobly do our duty,
And give to the South our hearts, our arms, our lives.

Bring forth the flag, our country's noble standard.
Wave it on high till the wind shake each fold out.
Proudly it floats, nobly waving in the vanguard.
Then cheer up, boys, cheer, with a lusty long bold shout. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Cheer Boys Cheer' midi needed
From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 01:29 AM

If "Cheer Boys Cheer" (Words by Charles Mackay; Music by Henry Russell) is the one asked for, go to The Music of Henry Russell (scroll down to "1850"), where you can get its lyrics & midi.