| Show SONGS THAT HAVE CURRENCY DURING DUPING GREAT POLITICAL CONTESTS CONTEST s it in ivr a century slue ince an boet loet began writhing C ini klim aloir a gained mat braot temporary faine buinis IJ I J iby i iren abazi it t llund VER a hundred years intervene between tile era of philip frene brenem ili and ami the era cra of samuel josephs josephi freneau was tile first arst ameri american an writer of carn cam songs anil and joseph lias has been tho the first to 1 bimbela in that lino line during tho alm season of political excitement Fren can who waa born bom in ia new york citrin city in I 1 17 ja mul anil who died at freehold N J in it ly lid did hm big most mast effective rhyming N hen ab int thirty years of ago age it was then that lie published lw his bitter attack attach on a I 1 tew few lines of which read as follows a brute and a dunce aunte like there the rest t ot of ibe clain i gui era as well its most englishmen can A abd dt if im A druit aard I 1 niu LL man sinco since thoo tho o days that tried mena souls the campaign ons tons t hiis has undergone a variety of transformations sometimes it has been humorous often bitterly partisan occasionally N giue as to meaning 0 and halting as to meter but neatly neaily always intensely patriotic indeed it may bensaid lie said of political rhymes that have been set to music and sung sting by millions that their name is legion but the vast majority have died with the occasion that brought them forth each town or hamlet hai ha had its poet and the strength of liis his production has usually depended depend eI upon the aptness of his local I 1 cherence nce what was familiar ir ailaine during a heated political canvass was not always appreciated in maryland or missouri Vii tippecanoe anti and T tiler ler too the die alliterated refrain of one of the popular songs bongs of th presidential ident ial cam campaign of 1810 18 10 is probably one of the iho most frequently recalled of tile the ancient lines throughout tin the republican publican Ke son songs of the lie we find that tho the of tile the poets are at one with the campaign orators and the words as well as tile the tunes are generally those which the iho late war made familiar famili nr the alio democratic aro are like likewise mise in harmony harmody with the ho speeches made ou on the democratic stump shimp charles G hallice alpine Hal II pice or as he was wa 9 better known miles oreilly was one of the versifiers versi fiers whose bongs and poems generally met with a warm welcome and tho the rollicking stylo style in which lio lie ran rang the changes on bumpers anti anil chanted chornega chor neg cs is still remembered for instance b so boys a final bumper while MO ma nil all in m choruk chant for our livit pm aident moll nominate our on n ulysses uly bes dziut rt tut if eskil bdate ho he hails bails from llila our eolo eole reply will lic bo from lear court house with will its famous apple tree for there to our ulysses that lao ga 0 up the fight bow lio bo I 1 to G raol rant for anil and god 01 ol the right here is still another specimen when tho tLe white AVIAte house changes change hands giauda and our oar wt erin cral takes tom command om mand and anjouk our in arching da laa h nul nii lights ilias are arc telly ur wo M ill lay our torches by and laud io in land sac artho union colon liall hall bostron cr than bufore tramp tra inri tho bij baij 8 eto etc A campaign tong frong does docs not rely for its effectiveness upon the beauty ur correctness ness of its lines give it a fetching fetch tig quality and the lie in inan ni who icho makes it will ivill have all the satisfaction lie he wants during the chicago chicag convent ion saia josephs of who has already I re felTed Cil to earned a rare le by starting a song that arved to bring tho the house down somehow he had ila caught tho the melody of tho the baby hong son ii ill t lie comic opera wang ang which de wua W F hopper lias it male made familiar and on ln ht way to chicago lie ho regaled liis his delegation with tho the lines as fir far ho bo lie it could remember ibm ali m something soni ething a after tha tol loning loining style baby Haby baby blies bhea my jay darling baby up bile goes down falo goes KIX S la in ILL in la ia la ia la ia it worried tho the jovial singer that no be recall the lat last line but tho the inspiration bIti ration came cabie to him liter later on oil and rushing into the sherman hou house c chero PHILIP I 1 arl AV ami was in ino giess ho shouted to his companions 11 hoys I 1 aie e got it a new balig without mote ado lie he a chair his bis throat threat and sang a brover brover rou bior r yes ro moru moro of C crota ro er out ibey go eo I 1 u we so go rbee 1011 oll be ill clonar the tha song malo mado a decided hit and in a little whilo while it w was is bring being L M ery whore where shouted shout cil tho wonis out ont aud and sent to a in inter with instructions to have th omand of copies ready fur distribution at the night bes bession bion it so bo happened that general bragg I 1 of wis coli cousia bill was oa the io lost riua maling ui akini ft a nomination but bitt a heavy rain was fulling falling the roof was leaking tho the lightning blaed along the electric and heavy ive leali ili of thunder shook the frail sit structure known in ag the wigwam wiK waro the general stood comparatively liel plas tor for no one could be heard when afien suddenly sam inalle a motion to the leader of the band whom habad he biad previously aseen seen the started and thu the charil t of alio thoro o beho were in the secret started tile the son on the second round it is said that tally vices rices joined in and tho the convention waso niti iti it i feet and everybody in i 1 state of wi wild III ell after adjournment nl the rain was still falling but as the wet wa and tired crowd flocked to shelter it was wai still to tho the music of grover Gro vcr grovr grover one of tho campaign son bongi alien achen norace greeley was f for or went like this como nil all 3 a old line democrats now talo talc fiur aur physia freely ld h lour our KII SM ei vallo ou drink to honest farmer cr orcell cele elc still another that may inay be sung during the present year if this come all 3 0 politician filling filline up the nit tlonA chairs and 1 rot n t your bands together bior lla its mighty fogay climbing up the white hooko stairs from the foregoing specimens it ii n easy to see that the gray matter of a mans brain need not bo be burned out in an endeavor to inako tho the so called political campaign songs string together go a 1 few catchy rhymes give them the sw swing ing of popular air and the public will do the rest it is well wei to add however that the most stirring strains brought intense into use those barn of the moment and some of the in melodies clodies now popular have come down almost from colonial days the revolutionary fathers may have sung homely rhymes but they were to the lie purpose rude britons boast no longer did good work in its time yankee doodle is still played with an j that hit lias has lost none of its force by reason of age after the war of 1813 1812 the star spangled cinner banner and hail columbia secured places among the worlds great historic songs v SJ jo sErna during the lato late war more inore than 2000 songs were produced prod need concerning it although a I 1 few feraro are destined to survive save such as have tho the imprint of geniuses like whittier and holmes olmes II probably the strongest and most inspiring among them is that which tells us u john drowns crowns body liei moldering mold cring in ili tile gro ground groenil unil but iiii soul is marching arching in on mid and many mally an old soldier will recall liow how the iho weariness of it a long march was lightened by Tra tramp trat tramp lip the boy bos s ilia it a inar in arching ebing tile the south found inspiration in ili dixie while maryland my maryland land will bo be long on admired as one of if the modern modem genis gems of lyrical literature GORDON |
