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Union Songs
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John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!
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The men will cheer, and the boys will shout! The ladies they will all turn out, and we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home!
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"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight!" No sound save the rush of the river.
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Oh we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom!
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So we sang the chorus, from Atlanta to the sea, while we were marching through Georgia!
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Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The boys are marching, cheer up comrades they will come.
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Many are the hearts looking for the right to see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, tenting on the old camp ground!
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The first gun is fired! May God protect the right! Let the freeborn sons of the North arise in power's avenging night.
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Confederate Songs
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In Dixie's land I'll take my stand, to live and die in Dixie!
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Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star!
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The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland my Maryland!
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Oh, the years creep slowly by, Lorena, the snow is on the ground again.
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Lying in the shadows underneath the trees; goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!
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We'll play the banjo gaily and we'll sing our sorrows o'er, and the yellow Rose of Texas shall be mine forever more!
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Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, Richmond is a hard road to travel!
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O I'm a good old rebel, now that's just what I am. For this "fair land of freedom" I do not care a damn.
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