Lyr Add: We Are Coming from the Cotton Fields

Subject: Lyr Add: WE ARE COMING FROM THE COTTON FIELDS
From: chico
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 07:49 AM

           A                       7           D
  We are coming from the cotton fields, we're coming from afar;
           A                          7          E7        
  We have left the plow, the hoe and ax and are going to the war;
            A                            D             7
  We have left old plantation seat, the sugar and the cane,
             A                      7             E7                A
  Where we work'd and toil'd with weary feet, in sun and wind and rain.
  
         A                       D
  Then come along my boys, Oh! come, come along,
        A                          E7    
  Then come along my brothers, Oh come, come along.
           A                                   D            F#°
  We are coming from the cotton fields, we're coming from a far,
           A                        7       E7               A    
  We have left the plow the hoe and ax, and we are going to war.
  
  We have digg'd our last pertater here in old Carliner State,
  And we'll leave these sandy diggins now for the true Confederate;
  We have left the frogs within the slough to sing alone and hop
  In the swamp lands and the meadows where we reap'd old Massa's crop.
  
  We will leave our chains behind us, boys, the prison, and the rack;
  And we'll hide beneath a soldier's coat, the scars upon upon our backs;
  And we'll teach the world a lesson soon, if taken by the hand,
  How the night shall come before tis noon, upon old Pharoah's land.
  
  By the heavy chains that bound our hands thro' centuries of wrong,
  We have learn'd the hard bought lesson well, how to suffer and be strong;
  And we only ask the power to show, what Freedom does for man;
  And we'll give sign to friend and foe, as none beside us can.
  
  [Words & Music by J. C. Wallace (1864)]

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We are coming from the cotton fields
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 08:43 AM

From the Levy collection:

Title: We are Coming from the Cotton Fields. Song & Chorus.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by J.C___N. Music by J.C. Wallace.
J. C. Wallace Publication: Chicago: Root & Cady, 95 Clark St., 1864.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: We are coming from the cotton fields, we're coming from afar
First Line of Chorus: The come along my boys, Oh, come, come along

From American Memory:

We are coming from the cotton fields : song & chorus / words by J. Cn ; music by J.C. Wallace.
Originally published: Chicago : Root & Cady, c1864.

We are coming from the cotton fields. 1864
Wallace, J. C.
OTHER TITLES
First line: We are coming from the cotton fields
Chorus: Then come along my boys
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Chicago; Davenport, Illinois; Iowa, Root & Cady; J.C. Wallace, 1864

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We are coming from the cotton fields
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 09:26 AM

"We Are Coming from the Cotton Fields" (1864; J. C---n / J. C. Wallace) [midi & text] is at The Music of the American Civil War (1861-1865).