Old Dan Tucker

Published in 1843 by Dan Emmett (the author of “Dixie”), who also claimed authorship, “Old Dan Tucker” may have evolved from a popular slaves song about a part-time minister who lived near Elberton, Georgia.  The song was popular around both Northern and Southern campfires.

Lyrics:

Now Old Dan Tuker was a mighty good man
Washed his face in a fryin' pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
And died with a toothache in his heal

Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
Your're to late to get your supper
Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
You're to late to get your supper

Now Old Dan Tucker come to town
Ridin' a billy goat, leadin' a hound
The hound dog barked and billy goat
jumped
And landed old Tucker on a stump

Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
Your're to late to get your supper
Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
You're to late to get your supper

Now Old Dan Tuckergot drunk and fell
In the fire and kicked up holy hell
A red-hot coal got in his shoe
An oh my Lord the ashes flew

Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
Your're to late to get your supper
Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
You're to late to get your supper

(backround Bruce yells Charlie)

Now Old Dan Tucker come to town
Swinging them ladies all round
First to the right and then to the left
Then to the gal that he loved best

Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
Your're to late to get your supper
Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
You're to late to get your supper

Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
Your're to late to get your supper
Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker
You're to late to get your supper

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Grafted Into The Army

Lyrics:

By: Henry C. Work 

Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent,

They have grafted him intothe Army,

He finally puckered up courage and went,

When they grafted him into the Army.

I told them the child was too young, alas!

At the captains forequarters, they said he would pass,

They'd train him up well in the Infantry class,

So they grafted him into the Army. 

(Chorus)

Oh, Jimmy, farewell!

Your brothers fell

Way down in Alabammy,

I though they would spare

A lone widder's heir,

But they grafted him into the Army.

Dressed up in his unicorn, dear little chap,

They have grafted him into the Army,

It seems but a day since he sot in my lap,

But they grafted him into the Army.

And these are the trousies he used to wear,

Them very same buttons, the patch and the tear,

But Uncle Sam gave him a bran' new pair

When they grafted him into the Army. 

(Chorus)

Now in my provisions I see him revealed,

They have grafted him into the Army;

A picket beside the contented field,

They have grafted him into the Army.

He looks kinder sickish--begins to cry,

A big volunteer standing right in his eye!

Oh, what if the ducky should up and die,

Now they've grafted him into the Army.

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2 Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel

Lyrics:

Would you like to hear my song? I'm afraid it's rather long,

Of the famous "On to Richmond" double trouble;

Of the half a dozen trips and half a dozen slips

And the very latest bursting of the bubble.

'Tis pretty hard to sing and, like a round, round ring,

'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel;

Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia's shore,

That Richmond was a hard road to travel.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe.

 

First McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way

By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather

But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall (foolish man!)

And had a rocky journey altogether.

And he found it rather hard to ride over Beauregard

And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother.

'Twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn't like the route

And a second time would have to try another.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For Manassas is a hard road to travel.

Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe.

 

Next came the Wooly Horse with an overwhelming force

To march down to Richmond by the Valley,

But he couldn't find the road, and his onward movement showed

His campaigning was a mere shilly-shally.

Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks

Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry,

Lost the whole of his supplies and with tears in his eyes

From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For the Valley is a hard road to travel.

The Valley wouldn't do, and we all had to leave,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe.

 

Then the great Galena came, with her portholes all aflame,

And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder,

But the guns at Drury's Bluff gave them speedily enough

The loudest sort of reg'lar Rebel thunder.

The Galena was astonished and the Monitor admonished,

Our patent shot and shell were mocked at,

While the dreadful Naugatuck, by the hardest kind of luck,

Was knocked into an ugly cocked hat.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For James River is a hard road to travel.

The gunboats gave up in terror and despair,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I declare.

 

Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon,

To try the Peninsular approaches,

But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed

Was no faster than the slowest of slow coaches.

Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg he found

A Longstreet indeed and nothing shorter.

And it put him in the dumps that spades wasn't trumps

And the Hills he couldn't level "as he orter!"

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For Longstreet is a hard road to travel.

Lay down the shovel and throw away the spade,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I'm afraid.

 

Then said Lincoln unto Pope, "You can make the trip, I hope."

"I will save the universal Yankee nation!

"To make sure of no defeat, I'll leave no lines of retreat,

"And issue a famous proclamation!"

But that same dreaded Jackson, this fella laid his whacks on

And made him, by compulsion, a seceder.

Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight,

'Twas his very last appearance as a leader.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

Stonewall is a hard road to travel.

Pope did his very best but was evidently sold,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told.

 

Last of all Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried

A road no one had thought of before him,

With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen

And the blessed Union flag waving o'er him.

He met a fire like hell of canister and shell

That mowed down his men with great slaughter.

'Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo,

And the river ran with more blood than water.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

Rappahannock is a hard road to travel.

Burnside got in a trap, which caused for him to grieve,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe.

 

We are very much perplexed to know who is the next

To command the new Richmond expedition,

For the capital must blaze, and that in ninety days,

And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition.

We'll take the cursed town, and then we'll burn it down

And plunder and hang each cursed Rebel.

Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight:

"Oh, yes, massa, dey will fight like the debil!"

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel.

Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves,

For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe.

 

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The Bonnie Blue Flag

The Bonnie Blue Flag was probably the 2nd most popular song in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The tune was taken from an Irish song - The Irish Jaunting Car 

Lyrics:

We are a band of brothers And native to the soil, Fighting for the property We gained by honest toil; And when our rights were threatened, The cry rose near and far-- "Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star!" CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern rights hurrah! Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star. As long as the Union Was faithful to her trust, Like friends and like brothers Both kind were we and just; But now, when Northern treachery Attempts our rights to mar, We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.--CHORUS First gallant South Carolina Nobly made the stand, Then came Alabama, Who took her by the hand. Next quickly Mississippi, Georgia and Florida All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.--CHORUS Ye men of valor, gather round The banner of the right; Texas and fair Louisiana Join us in the fight. Davis, our loved president, And Stephens statesman are; Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.--CHORUS And here's to old Virginia-- The Old Dominion State-- Who with the young Confederacy At length has linked her fate; Impelled by her example, Now other states prepare To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.--CHORUS Then cheer, boys, cheer; Raise the joyous shout, For Arkansas and North Carolina Now have both gone out; And let another rousing cheer For Tennessee be given, The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag Has grown to be eleven.--CHORUS Then here's to our Confederacy, Strong are we and brave; Like patriots of old we'll fight Our heritage to save. And rather than submit to shame, To die we would prefer; So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star.--CHORUS    Click Here For Video.    2nd South Carolina String Band - Bonnie Blue Flag   Video Click Here   Source: youtube.com

We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder

Lyrics:

1. We are climbing Jacob's ladder,
We are climbing Jacob's ladder,
We are climbing Jacob's ladder,
Soldiers of the cross.

2. Every round goes higher, higher,
Every round goes higher, higher,
Every round goes higher, higher,
Soldiers of the cross.

3. Sinner, do you love my Jesus?
Sinner, do you love my Jesus?
Sinner, do you love my Jesus?
Soldiers of the cross.

4. If you love Him, why not serve Him?
If you love Him, why not serve Him?
If you love Him, why not serve Him?
Soldiers of the cross.

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He Touched Me

Lyrics:

Shackled by a heavy burden
Neath a load of guilt and shame
Then the hand of Jesus touched me
And now I am no longer the same

He touched me, oh he touched me
And oh the joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He touched me and made me whole

Since I met this blessed savior
Since he cleansed and made me whole
I will never cease to praise him
Ill shout it while eternity rolls

He touched me oh he touched me
And oh the joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He touched me and made me whole

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Lyrics:

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high there's a land I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why oh why can't I?

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