Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-20 | Page 4 | Collect More than 70 Songs Honoring Lincoln

Collect More Than 70 Songs Honoring Lincoln SPRINGFIELD SPRING IiI Oct 20 AP A Campaign songs marches hymns of praIse and funeral marches more than seventy in number eulogizing Abraham Lincoln have been collected by Georgia L. L Osborne Osborne Osborne Os- Os borne librarian of the Illinois state historical library The r he first songs in honor of ot Mr Lincoln Miss Oborne Osborne said were campaign songs Including Freedoms Call We Ve See the Break of ot Day and A Campaign Song ong for Abraham Lincoln A numb number r of the songs were written in the negro dialect the most famous of which were Is Iso Tso on de Way Yay De Do Day ay ob Liberty Liberty's s Comin When Will VIII dis Cruel WarMe Warlie War Be Me and Gib Us Darkies Darkles He Other songs were written for the negroes telling of ot their troubles ana their hope and faith in Lincoln Strangely one of the ballroom gems of ot 1865 was named The rhe Lit im- coin cain the same year yeal that the funeral marches were written for forthe the martyred dent Numbered among the songs written written written writ writ- ten after Mr Lincoln's death were The TIle Nation in in hi Tears A Nation Mourns Her Martyred Son The rhe Death Knel Knea Is Tolling Toiling and Rest nest Noble Chieftain I 0