The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-25

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unknown. The music Is supposed to
be an old dancing tune and Inc words
were written to ridicuie the Amefi-
| can Colonial militia raised to aid
British fight the French. In the war
! OF 1776 The Colonials sang It with
On the Road to Boston" my Dog
and Cum" Rural Felicity and
.Washington's March," but Yankee
Doodle" has survived as most
famous.
Dixie" originated in a minstrel
show but; holds an enduring place in
the music Of our nation. Among the
Confederates, 1t shared its popularity
with Maryland, Ny Maryland" This
song was written by Miss Hattie Cary
Of Baltimore, at the beginning OF the
Civil war and set to an old college
tune, "Lauriger Horatius." Later
In Confederate camp near Manas-
sas after a band had played ain o.
nicer said, Now let's hear a woman
sing" Miss Jenny Cary, sister cS
the author, sang my Maryland"
Thousands Of soldiers caught UP the
tune and it went all over the South.
Most famous Of all war songs Isl
the "Marseillaise." It is one of the
few not written by one who stayed
at home. Claude Josepr Rouget de,
Lilsie. young officer in the French
army, wrote words and music in the
single night Of April "a, 1892, just
before the great revolution in France.
che song swept the nation.
1t got Its name from a band o..
revolutionaries. Reds OF the Midi.
who sang 1t marching from Marsoil-
les to Paris. At Waterloo, when
Napoleon gave UP to despair, the
band played on and the strains y
the "Marsellaise" sent the old guard
to the field of slaughter. A German
valuation Of the song was made by
Klopstock. who said to its author:
Sir, your song has sent $4,000 gall
liant Germans to their DEATH"
Among Great Britain's wealth of
war songs Is Rule, BRITANNIA" al
national ode and one Of the chief
patriotic expressions in music Of the,
British since 1t was written in 1740.
The chorus. Rule, Britannia, rulel
the waves. Brittons never shall be-
slaves, is lyrical political proph-
ecy and Richard Wagner said its first
eight notes form the most typical
musical utterance of the British,
people.
"England's most famous war song
is God Save the King" which be-
came popular in 1745 when sung inl
opposition to the Jacobite rising In
Scotland. The music is supposed to;
have evolved from folk songs but its
origin is obscure. The Austrian
song. God Preserve Our Gracious
Emperor" composed by Joseph,
Haydn in 1897. during the Napo-i
leonic wars was suggested by and
probably written in rivalry to God
Save the King"
Samuel Francis Smith. u Boston
clergyman, wrote America, my
Country It's of Thee" which we sing
to the tune OF God Save the King Il
America" was first sung at Sum
day school Fourth of July celebra-
tion in Park street church. Boston.
Five hundred and seventeen new
airs for America" were written some
some years ago when the Society of
the Cincinnati advertised for q new
tune for the song. The national song
of the Swiss and the royal national
song Of Sweden also are sung to the.
tune of God Save the King"
Germany has the richest collec-i
tion of war songs with die Wacht
am Rhein" foremost It was written
by Max Schneckenburser in 1870
Carl Wilhelm composed the music In
1854. The song struggled for pop
ularity for years and finally gained
its fame in the Franco-German war
of invasion. The song became ma
the Emperor
"The Rhine Song" won popularity
in Prussia in 1910 because Of its
lyrical defiance to France In the
words. "They shall not ever win
thee" France replied tauntingly
through Alfred de Musset when he
wrote Mouse l'aons Gu. votre Rhin
Allemand." 1--WE have had 1t, your;
German Rhine.")