The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-22

the HTSI time by SUNDAY SCnOOl cHIlOTeI
in the Park street church in Boston or
the Fourth of July that year to the
music of God Save the Queen"
ABOUT YANKEE DOODLE"
But earlier than all of these as q
typical American song and air came
Yankee Doodle" The words were
written by an English army surgeon in
a division of the New England militia
who had Joined the English troops in
camp below albany, when there was a
movement on foot for the reduction OF
the French power in the Canadian
provinces. That was in 1865. The tune
was an old English one. The ragged
militia adopted the song, to the intense
amusement of the regular troops, but
years later when an English army
heard the strains of Yankee Doodle
at Lexington, the laugh was on the
other side. Then and there, in the
words of a British officer, the army of
George III was made to dance to the
music" and they did not relish the
performance.
John Dickinson of Delaware, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence,
wrote one of the earliest patriotic
songs Of the colonies. The title of it
was 1.-The Liberty Song" and the date
1853. The opening stanza read:
Come Join hand in hand, brave Amer
leans all,
And rouse your bold hearts at Liberty's
call:
No tyrannous acts shall suppress your
just claim.
or stain with dishonor Americas name
In freedom we're born, and in freedom
our purses are ready
Steady, friends, steady
Not as slaves. but as freemen, our money
Wen give.
A BUNKER HILL BALLAD.
The Stamp Act was then kindling the
fires of revolution. a stanza from a
popular song just beSore Bunker Hill
heralded the coming conhagration in
these words:
Then freedoms the word. both at home
and abroad.
Our forefathers gave US this freedom in
And Wen die in defense of the rights of
the land,
Derry down, down. hey derry down.
1.-The American Soldiers Hymn"
was the title Of one of the religious
songs of the revolution. The Puritan
spirit breathes out in every line OF it:
Great heavens, is this the nation. whose
laundering arms were hurled
Through Him our feet can swiftly run
navy ruled the world?
The lustre of whose former deeds, whose
ages of renown,
Lost in a moment are transferred to US
from Washington?
IT'S God that girds our armor on
And all our Just designs fulfills;
Through Him our feet can swiftly run
And nimbly climb the steepest hills.
Ills God that still supports our right,
His Just revenge our foes pursues;
IT'S lie that with resistlesS might
Fierce nations in His power subdues.
At about the close of all. the old
Continentals sang among others, this
rollicking verse:
CORVALLIS led a country dance.
The like was never seen, sir,
Much retrograde and much advance
And all with General Greene. sir.
FAMOUS LYRICS OF 1872.
The war of 1872 brought forth an i'm
mense crop of martial song. One OF
the earliest songs of that period has
this spirited verse:
The daSs of Seventy ?six. my boys,
We ever must revere;
Our fathers took their muskets then
To fight for freedom dear.
Upon the plains of Lexington
They made the foe look queer.
Q, It's great delight 10 march and fight
AS Yankee Volunteer"
"Columbia's Bold Yeomanry," was
one OF the stirring songs during the
second war with England. The closing
verse read:
Though the powers of Europe in arms |
should assail
The land OF our fathers. their millions
would fail;
Whilst memory dwells on the deeds of /
their fame
The war cry of victory. washington's
name,
To repeI every foe from our shore would
invoke.
bold yeomanry, fem as her
cak."
Union and Liberty" was sung all
over the country:
Let England exult in her castles OF wood,