Monday, June 26, 2023
Defiance
Innes Randolph (1837-1887), "The Good Old Rebel," Poems (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, Publishers, 1898), pp. 30-31 (at 31):
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The accompaniment above is much better than the hack job by Jerry Silverman in Irwin Silber, Songs of the Civil War (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995), pp. 356-357.
Performed by Bobby Horton here, by the 2nd South Carolina String Band here (with flat seventh).
See Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865-1913 (1985; rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 15, and Joseph M. Thompson, I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, and Popular Song (diss. University of Mississippi, 2013).
Dedicated to the memory of my great-great-great-grandfather John B. Wagner (10th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry State Guard), my great-great-grandfather John Matthews (4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Company F), and my great-great-grandfather Thomas Ellis (38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Company C; my middle name is Ellis).
Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958), We Will Remember Them:
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But I ain't agoin' to love 'em,Music from Richard Crawford, The Civil War Songbook: Complete Original Sheet Music for 37 Songs (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977), pp. 71-72 (note the ironic dedication to abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens; click images once or twice to enlarge):
Now that is sarten sure.
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
I won't be reconstructed,
And I don't care a dam.
Performed by Bobby Horton here, by the 2nd South Carolina String Band here (with flat seventh).
See Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865-1913 (1985; rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 15, and Joseph M. Thompson, I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, and Popular Song (diss. University of Mississippi, 2013).
Dedicated to the memory of my great-great-great-grandfather John B. Wagner (10th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry State Guard), my great-great-grandfather John Matthews (4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Company F), and my great-great-grandfather Thomas Ellis (38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Company C; my middle name is Ellis).
Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958), We Will Remember Them:
