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A Collection Of 170+ Classic American Songs With Lyrics And Sheet Music.

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	A Ballad of Tea Party	the Boston	Oliver Wendell Holme* 1809-1894.	Unknown .... 18,19,20 Air: Yankee Doodle. This tune originated in France or Holland. First sung in England to the nursery rhyme "Lucy Locket lost her pocket " it was soon adapted to verses sung by the Cava­liers in ridicule of Crom­well who was said to have entered Oxford riding a email horse and wearing a single plume fastened into a sort of knot deri­sively called a " maca­roni." "Yankee Doodle came to town, Upon a Kentish pony ; He stuck a leather in his cap, Upon a macaroni." When, in 1755, the Col­onists were assembling under Braddock near Al­bany, a joke-loving Brit­ish surgeon gave them this song as the latest martial music from Eng­land. The joke succeed­ed, and the uncouth Con­tinentals played and sang Yankee Doodle to the great amusement of the British. Twenty-six years later Cornwallis marched to the same tune into the lines of these same old Continentals to surren­der his sword and his army. Unknown...... 20 Air : Yankee Doodle. Ludwig van Beethoven . 21 1770-1827. From the choral setting of Schiller's Hymn of Joy at the close of Beetho­ven's Ninth Symphony. Bernard Covert . . . . 22,23 Wenzel Miiller . . . . 24,25 1767-1835.
	A Song of the Flag . . . Ode for Washington's Birthday Written for the celebration of the Mercantile Library Associa­tion, in Boston, February 22, 1856. The Sword of Bunker Hill		M. Woolsey Stryker . 1851-Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894.
			William Ross Wallace . . 1819-1881. John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892. John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892. Thomas Buchanan Head . 1822-1872. Philip Paul Bliss.... 1838-1876. John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.
	Song of the Negro Boat­men From the poem At Port Royal. Hymn, bung at Christmas by the Scholars of St. Helena's Island, S. C. Where the Eagle is King .
				Albert Gottlieb Methfessel 26 1785-1869. William F. Hartley. 27,28, 29 Philip Paul Bliss . . . 30,31 Jonathan Battishill... 32 1738-1801. Stephen Collins Foster . 33 Unknown......W,
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	Laus Deo !....... Written on hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitu­tional amendment abolishing slavery. SWANEE RlVER..... This song, Old Folks at Home, one of the best known ever written, is one of Foster's fa­mous Plantation Melodies. Ready........
			Stephen Collins Foster 1826-1864.
			Phozbe Cary . , 1824-1871.