Lyr Add: Virginian Marseillaise

Subject: Lyr Add: Virginian Marseillaise
From: chico
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 01:51 AM

            F         C7       F   Dm           Bb       Gm   C7 F
  Virginia hears the dreadful summons, sounding hoarsley from afar
                        (Bb) C     Gm   (D7  Gm)     C7       F
  On her sons she calls and calmly bids them now prepare for war
                             C
  Bids them now prepare for war
  
                          7       F        7        Bb      G7           C
  With manly hearts and hands to aid her, she cares not how her foeman swarm
       Fm                       C    C7+        Fm                           C
  She bares her bosom to the storm, while she laughs, to scorn the pround invader
  
   7  F              C  (7)     F                  C
  To Arms! Brothers dear. Gird on, the trenchant brand
    (7)   F      C    F7   Bb   F B°   C   C9   F        C7      F
  Strike Home! Strike Home! No craven fear! For home and native land!
  
  
  Shall the sons of Old Virginia prove unworthy of their sires
  No! They'l show the haughty foeman, That in fight, she "never tires"
  With fav'ring heaven to befriend her To whome alone she bends the knee
  'Til ev'ry foot of soil is free she her sacred cause will ne'er surrender
  
  A ray of never dying glory, shall Virginia's brows o'erspread
  Men unborn shall tell the story, how their fathers fought and bled 
  While fairest hands their wounds were tending and brightest eyes the dead bewailed
  How not a noble bosom quailed, E'en to die, their native land defending
  
  
  [Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1863, by George Dunn in the clerk's office of the district court of the 
  
  confederate states of America, for the eastern district of virginia]

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Virginian Marseillaise
From: masato sakurai
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 07:18 AM

Sheet music at the Levy collection.

Title: Virginian Marseillaise.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Composed & Arranged for the Voice & Piano Forte by F.W. Rosier.
Publication: Richmond, VA: Lithographed & Published by Geo. Dunn & Co., P.O. Box 991, 1863.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Virginia hears the dreadful summons, sounding hoarsely from afar
First Line of Chorus: To arms! Brothers dear! Gird on the trenchant brand!

Subject: RE: LYR. ADD: SOUTHERN MARSEILLAISE
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 04:38 PM

Lyr. Add: Southern Marseillaise

Sons of the South, awake to glory!
A thousand voices bid you rise;
Your children, wives and grandsires hoary,
Gaze on you now with trusting eyes!
Gaze on you now with trusting eyes!

Your country every strong arm calling,
To meet the hireling Northern band
That comes to desolate the land,
With fire and flood and scenes appalling:
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on!
All hearts resolved on victory or death!

Now, now, the dangerous storm is rolling,
Which treach'rous brothers madly raise:
The dogs of war let loose are howling,
And soon our peaceful towns may blaze!
And soon our peaceful towns may blaze!
Shall fiends who basely plot our ruin,
Uncheck'd, advance with guilty stride,
To spread destruction far and wide,
With Southrons' blood their hands imbruing?

With needy, starving mobs surrounded,
The jealous, blind fanatics dare
To offer, in their zeal unbounded,
Our happy slaves their tender care
Our happy slaves their tender care!
The South, tho' deepest wrongs bewailing,
Long yielded all to Union's name,
But independence now we claim,
And all their threats are unavailing!

Francis D. Allan, 1874, "Allan's Lone Star Ballads, A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs Made During Confederate Times," pp. 18-19. Burt Franklin NY, reprint pub. Lenox Hill (Burt Franklin), 1970.
No author, or date, but presumably 1861-1863.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Virginian Marseillaise
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 12:08 AM

The original's still the best.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Virginian Marseillaise
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 04:29 AM

Original? They are two independent songs, but I agree that "Southern Marseilles" is a poor song.
Somewhere I have seen another, also based on "Marseilles." I will post it if I can locate it again.