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Author Rabson, Carolyn.

Title Songbook of the American Revolution / With illus. by Nancy Hansen.

Publication Info. Peaks Island, Me. : NEO Press [1974]
[©1974]

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  784.719 Q    Check Shelf
Description v, 112 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 103-107.
Contents Four songs to the tune Hearts of oak: The liberty song ; A parody on a liberty song ; A new liberty song ; A refugee song -- A song to the sons of liberty -- Four songs to the tune Derry down: Castle Island song ; A new song to an old tune ; Public spirit of the women ; The epilogue -- A tea party song -- A song on liberty -- The whig -- The banks of the Dee and a parody -- Junto song -- The Irishman's epistle to the officers and troops at Boston -- The king's own regulars -- A new war song / by Sir Peter Parker -- The congress -- A war song -- Collinet and Phebe -- The battle of Trenton -- Two songs to the tune Wat'ry God: A parody on the Wat'ry God ; A song about Charleston -- The fate of John Burgoyne -- The rebels -- The British light infantry -- The halcyon days of old England -- Three songs to the tune Yankee doodle: The battle of the Kegs ; Yankee doodle's expedition to Rhode Island ; The recess -- The American vicar of Bray -- An appeal to loyalists -- Carnwallis Burgoyned -- Chester -- Bunker Hill -- Ode for the Fourth of July -- Thanksgiving hymn -- A toast to Washington -- Admas and liberty -- Paul Jones -- The federal constitution and liberty forever -- Hail! Columbia -- Ode for American independence.
Summary Words and music of ballads, national songs, and hymns from the Revolutionary War. Includes varied versions of "Hearts of Oak," "Derry Down," and "Yankee Doodle."
Subject National songs -- United States.
Songs.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Songs and music.
United States -- History -- Revolution -- Songs and music.
Added Author Hansen, Nancy V. A.
ISBN 0911014195
0911014187 paperback
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