Research Catalog

Title

Garfield and Arthur Republican campaign song book, 1880 / L. Fayette Sykes, compiler.

Publication

• New York City : Republican central campaign club or New York, [1880]
• ©1880.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sykes, L. Fayette.
• Republican Club of the City of New York.

Description

1 score (51 unnumbered pages); 24 cm

Alternative Title

My country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty ...

Subjects

• Political ballads and songs > United States
• Songsters
• Campaign songs > United States

Genre/Form

Songsters.

Note

• Includes either four-part choral scores or melodic lines (sometimes for two voices).

Contents

My country, ‘tis of thee -- Glory, hallelujah! -- The American union / By F. Widdows -- Our boatman [Tune: The boatman dance] -- Garfield and Arthur, the people’s choice [Tune: When Johnny comes marching home] -- Boatman Jim [Tune: Way down upon the Swanee River] -- Soldiers’ Marsellaise [Tune: Marsellaise] -- Jim Garfield of the west [Tune: Oh, carry me back to Old Virginny] -- Jim Garfield’s at the front [Tune: The old English gentleman] -- The Garfield yankee doodle [Tune: Yankee doodle] -- While we are voting for Garfield [Tune: Marching through Georgia] -- Round our banner [Tune: Hold the fort] -- O patriot hearts! Your fatherland [Tune: Watch on the Rhine] -- Campaign song [Tune: The union forever] -- Once more, ye true Republicans [Tune: John Brown’s body] -- Rallying song [Tune: John Brown’s body] -- The good time coming [Tune: Good time coming] -- ‘Neath the banner of Garfield [Tune: The star-spangled banner] -- Hurrah for General Garfield [Tune: Hold the fort] -- Sweet angel of peace [Tune: Russian hymn] -- Home, sweet home -- Our country, to thee [Tune: The star-spangled banner] -- Republicans, remember [Tune: Marching through Georgia] -- The bourbon democracee [Air: When I was a lad] -- Victory is sure [Tune: Hold the fort] -- With Garfield leading, we are marching on [Tune: Johnny comes marching home] -- The voice of the nation’s dead [Tune: Annie Laurie] -- He is a Republican [Air: He is an Englishman] -- Garfield and victory -- Plow boy of Ohio [Tune: Wait for the wagon] -- The red, white and blue -- Hurrah! Hurrah! The battle has begun [Tune: Marching through Georgia] -- We’ll beat ‘em [Tune: Camptown races] -- Six thousand millions strong [Tune: Le petit Tambour] -- Now I am the leader of the democracee [Air: When I was a lad] -- Hancock to his southern brigadiers [Tune: Yankee doodle] -- The conspirators’ song [Tune: The rogue’s march] -- Garfield and ‘Hail Columbia’ -- Boys in blue, fall in line! [Tune: Drink it down] -- Vote for Garfield and for law -- Freemen, now strike for right! [Tune: America] -- The star-spangled banner.

Call Number

Mus. Res. *MPWC-Amer. (Garfield and Arthur campaign song book)

OCLC

960068023

Title

Garfield and Arthur Republican campaign song book, 1880 / L. Fayette Sykes, compiler.

Publisher

New York City : Republican central campaign club or New York, [1880]

Copyright Date

©1880.

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Added Author

Sykes, L. Fayette., compiler.

Republican Club of the City of New York.

Cover Title

My country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty ...

Research Call Number

Mus. Res. *MPWC-Amer. (Garfield and Arthur campaign song book)