Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-05-31
A SONG DREAM.

In his entertaining lecture on popular
songs Mr. George Wakenan says that Ia his
study for its facts, the subject became 20 In
extricably confused In his mini that his
dreams were OF the most extraordinary char
acter. "0it in tho Silly Night "when
Stars were in the Quiet Sky" and the SSH
yer Moon" rolled on TO guide the traveller on
his way, there would appear to him first,
perhaps, "Marching along" with a steady
'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" an army of tho
Scots who had with Wallace bled, coming
''Out OF the Wilderness of tho Alabama
with banjo on their knees ready 10 attend
''Lanigans BALI and enjoy year of jubilee.
Then the scene would change, and he would
see "Jim Crow turning about and jumping
about to get out Of the way OF old 'sDan
Tucker" lest that Individual, In his chagrin
at being too late for his evening meal, should
knock him TO the 'Other Side Of Jordan -,
Then he would see "Dandy Jim and Caro-
line" "Sitting on Stiic" "Waiting for the
Wagon" which should convey them to their
"Coitage by the Sea- Here were pRobin
Ruff and Gaifsr Green" "Bobbin' Around"
with "No one to Love and none TO OMress.DI
Here was "Simon, the Cellarer,y beseeching
"Tbe Ratcatcher's Daughter" for zone Kind
Kiss before they Parted !" and sSmIggy Nc
Glurap' and "Bonny Barbara Allen came in
a "Low-backed Car" "Smiggy' drove
"Bob-tailed Nag that couldn't be beat, and
you ought to have seen him "Kitin' two-forty
on Plank Road" lie had "Filed the
Flowing bowl until he was "Stone Blind"
and some doubts wore expressed Of his state
ment that IA Mans Man for a That
"John Andersonp invited "Rosa Lee to
share with bim "The Cot in tho Valley he
Loved" but she replied, in her old manner,
snow, don't be foolish, Jo, Til o n o lae."--.
Here was quito q large party, In which we
noticed "Nora McSbane," "Ellen Bayne,"
"Eulalic," "Widow McOree" "Lucy Nenl,"'
"Luly Dale" so Susannah," !" "Cenlls Annie"
''OId King Cole" "Brennan on the Moor"
and the skiing Of the Cennibal Islands," all
under the protection of Slime Old English
Gentleman" who proposed to take them
'Ahoat, Ahoat" "Out on the Ocean Sailing"
and TO "llock them in the Cradle of the
Deep and inform them What the Wild
Waves were Saying" lilo. no, Boatman
Row 7 he said; and the boalInan did Just 30.
But the old gentleman, not being accustomed,
to tLife ON the Ocean wave' was rocked 10
sleep, and seemed 10 be dreaming that time
had turned backward In it's fight and that
he sDwelt in Marble Halls" and heard the
harp that once resounded in the nIIalls OF
Tara" lie slept till "Twas Midnight's Hour"
the girls singing sljeantiful Dreamer aHap-
Ipy be thy Dreams" Then he woke, and
seemed 10 'Heave his Soul In one nUnbrok-
|en Sigh" and "Shook with Cold like tho
"Man who could never get warm
"shivery shakey. o, no, hot
Geminy eriminy, ain I IL cold, ohi''
Here was the DDying Californian think
ing Of the .old Folks ct lone" and won
tering "Do they ever think Of me-" and 70.
'questing his friend, "Auld Rob Morris, 10
IsBreak ID Gently 10 his Mother" and as
certain "Who would care for her Now
The "Poor old Save" who bad followed his
fortunes so long, "Listens to the Mocking
Bird aud thinks he "Hears an Angst Sing.S
aud weeps as there comes borne on the au-
tumn Wild, from the corndeid, the darkey's
mournial song, aud reaeets that his .Massa's
in the Cold, Cold 0round, mouldsring along
with aOld John Brown" Here again was
the "Rose OF Allandale,s whose ''Johnny has
gone for Soldier When the 'Twilsht
Dews were Falling, he bid "Good-by al the
Door, telling her "fhou art my own dear
Love- and asking her il. when he returns.
''She will love him then as Now She re-.
plies dearest, then III love thee Morc, . and !,
M ssntiuue praying AWhen this Cruel War
"a uvsL praying thai We meet again. sOns
fond Kiss, and then the, Sever but by-and-
by "its all up IN Dixie" and "Johnny
Comes Marching Home and ali bid hiin
Welcome grammachrce. heartily welcome,
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