The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Flight,
Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment
of the Conspirators
With Eighty-two Halftone Illustrations, half of them never before published
By OSBORN H. OLDROYD
Editor and compiler “Words of Lincoln”
With an introduction by Bvt. Maj. Gen. T.M. HARRIS
Member of the Commission that Tried the Conspirators
12mo, cloth, 323 pages, with portrait of Lincoln never before published, $1.00
A straightforward account of this dreadful tragedy which still stands out in the annals of assassination. It contains much valuable information.—Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal.
Lincoln’s Murderers.—This is a patiently wrought out narrative of the most tragic event in American history. One merit of the book is its many illustrations, taken from original photographs and drawings.—Boston Journal.
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Words of Lincoln
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Music Source List
Note: Bracketed words/music credits in the list below indicate that the credits do not appear on the sheet music used for this e-book, and were obtained from Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) and the Public Domain Music website (www.pdmusic.org).
The midi and pdf files provided in this e-book were created using Finale 2007. Minor errors in the original sheet music have been corrected, the notation style has been modernized, and in most cases repeats have been omitted.
Copyright notices and keys specified in the original text of The Good Old Songs are not necessarily the same as those in the sheet music used to prepare this e-book. Where only the tune of a song is used, notation has not been provided.
From The Civil War Songbook (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977)
[Marching through Georgia], words and music by Henry Clay Work, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1865 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Just Before the Battle, Mother], words and music by George Frederick Root, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1864 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Brave Boys Are They!], words and music by Henry Clay Work, Chicago: H.M. Higgins, 1861 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Battle Hymn of the Republic], words by Mrs. Dr. S.G. [Julia Ward] Howe, Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Weeping, Sad and Lonely (or When This Cruel War Is Over)], words by Charles Carroll Sawyer, music by Henry Tucker, Brooklyn: Sawyer & Thompson, 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[We Are Coming Father Abra’am (300,000 More)], words by Wm. Cullen Bryant, music by L.O. Emerson, Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Tenting on the Old Camp Ground], words and music by Walter Kittredge, Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1864 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[The Battle Cry of Freedom], words and music by Geo. F. Root, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[The Bonnie Blue Flag], words by Harry Macarthy, New Orleans: A.E. Blackmar & Bro., 1861 (color cover image from the Library of Congress) [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Kingdom Coming], words and music by Henry Clay Work, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[The Vacant Chair (or We Shall Meet but We Shall Miss Him)], words and music by George Frederick Root, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (or The Prisoner’s Hope)], words and music by George Frederick Root, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1864 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[When Johnny Comes Marching Home], words and music by “Louis Lambert” (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore), Boston: Henry Tolman & Co., 1863 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
From the Library of Congress, Civil War and Historic Sheet Music Collections (www.loc.gov)
[Sherman’s March to the Sea], words by S.H.M Byers, music by J.O. Rockwell, New York: Wm. Hall & Son, 1865 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Song of a Thousand Years], words and music by Henry C. Work, Chicago: Root & Cady, 1863 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Hail, Columbia], [words by Joseph Hopkinson, music by Philip Phile], New York: Wm. Dresser, 1861 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[We’ve Drunk from the Same Canteen], words by Miles O’Reilly, music by James G. Clark, New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1865 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[The Star-Spangled Banner], [words by Francis Scott Key], transcribed for piano by Ch. Voss, Philadelphia: G. Andre & Co., 1862 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Ole Shady (or The Song of the Contraband)], [words and music by Benjamin Russell Hanby], Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1861 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Columbia the Gem of the Ocean], words and music by David T. Shaw, arranged by T.A. Becket, Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, c. 1862 (first published in 1843) [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Home Sweet Home], words by H.R. Bishop [and John Howard Payne], music by H.R. Bishop, Chicago: McKinley Music Co., c. 1914 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Who Will Care for Mother Now?], words and music by Charles Carroll Sawyer, arranged by C.F. Thompson, Brooklyn: Sawyer & Thompson, 1863 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[The John Brown Song (or Glory Hallelujah)], [music by William Steffe], Chicago: Root & Cady, 1861 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[My Country! ’Tis of Thee], [also known as America; words by Samuel Francis Smith], Boston: C. Bradlee, c. 1832 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Nearer, My God, to Thee], [words by Sarah Flower Adams, music by Lowell Mason], adapted by C.A. White, Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1881 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[I’se Gwine Back to Dixie], words and music by C.A. White, Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1874 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Fraternity], tune: Auld Lang Syne, [words by Robert Burns], arranged by Adolph Baumbach, Chicago, S. Brainard’s Sons Co., 1868 [[midi]]
[Charity], [words by Charles Jefferys], music by S. Glover, arranged by C. Everest, Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1868 [[midi]] [[pdf]]
[Ode on Presentation of Badge], tune: Hold the Fort, music by P.P. Bliss, Cincinnati: John Church Co., 1898 [[midi]]
Combined Music
[The Army Bean], tunes: Sweet By and By, music by J.P. Webster, arranged for piano by E. Mack, Philadelphia: J.E. Ditson & Co., 1876, from the Library of Congress Historic Sheet Music Collection; Go Tell Aunt Rhoda, old folk tune, composer unknown, arranged by the Transcriber [[midi]]