GRANT AND COLFAX
OUR NATION'S CHOICE
Chicago. Published by Lyon & Healy, Clark & Washington Sts.
Boston O. Ditson & Co.
New York C.H. Ditson & Co.
Philadelphia C.W.A. Trampler
St. Paul Munger Bros.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868 by Lyon & Healy in the Clerk's Office in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Cour for the Northern District of Illinois
1868
U.S. GRANT AND COLFAX
OUR MIGHTY NATION'S
CHOICE
Words by PAULINA Music by Wm SEIBERT.
In grand marching time
Oh! Freedom's mighty host with u- ni-ted voice have spo-ken, And the soul in-spir-ing words have flash'd from sea to sea; They have chosen for their leaders, those whose faith has been un-bro-ken, And whose mighty works have wrought an age of ju-bi-lee.
In the day of doubt and dread, in the night of grief and sorrow, When the hearthstone lay in shadow for the dear ones dead_Look'd the land in des-o-la-tion to her sons their aid to bor-row, And their trus-ty blades a path-way swept, dyed darkly red.
3 We have loved our chieftain's name thro' long years of toil and glory, And his deeds were oft re-count-ed by the bi-vouac's glow; Now our infant lispers gather at our knees to hear the story, How the nation's brave deliv'rers dealt out blow on blow.
4 Oh! the Boys in Blue have come with their votes like leaves in summer, As the truest meed that grat-i-tude can yield her own; They will march in solid phalanx for each glorious in-comer, While our joyous songs shall tell of treason's might o'erthrown.
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CHORUS
TENOR
ALTO
AIR
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Up from the plains, both East and West, Up from the South and from the North, Come the patriot ar-my boys,_ Joining the peo-ple's voice For U.S. Grant and Colfax, Our mighty nation's choice.
Up from the plains, both East and West, Up from the South and from the North, Come the patriot ar-my boys,_ Joining the peo-ple's voice For U.S. Grant and Colfax, Our mighty nation's choice.
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TO PERPETUATE
the glory of the brave men of the
19th Illinois.
and their companions in arms who fell at
Murfreesboro.
"Who'll save the left,"
A Battle Scene.
Words by R. Tompkins
Music by
GEO. F. ROOT.
CHICAGO
Published by ROOT & CADY 95 Clark St.
[unreadable]----
"WHO'LL SAVE THE LEFT?"
Recitando R.T. & G.F.R.
[tremolo] Thro' two long days the battle raged In front of Murfreesboro And cannon balls tore up the earth As plows turn up the furrow Brave soldiers by the hundred fell In fierce assault and sally While bursting shell hiss'd scream'd and fell Like demons in the valley The----
Northman, and the Southron met, In bold defiant manner, Now vict'ry perch'd on Union flag, And now on rebel banner; But see! upon the Union's left, Bear down in countless numbers, With shouts that seem to wake the hills From their eternal slumbers, The rebel hosts, who iron rain Beats down our weaker forces, And covers all the battle plain With torn and mangled corses; Still----
onward press the rebel hordes More boldly, fiercer, faster, But Negley's practiced eye discerns The swift and dread disaster, "Who'll save the left," his voice rang out Above the roar of battle, "The Nineteenth" shouted Colonel Scott, Amid the muskets rattle "The Nineteenth be it, Make the charge!" Quick as the word was given The Nineteenth fell up on the foe, As lightning falls from heaven.----
[Con Fuoco]
Over the stream they went, into the fight, Cutting their way on the left and the right, Unheeding the storm of the----
shot and the shell, Unheeding the fate of their comrades who fell, Onward they sped like the fierce lightnings flash, Onward they sped with a tornado's crash Onward they sped like the bolts of the thunder Resistlessly crushing the rebel hosts under 'Till wild in their terror they----
scatter'd and fled, Leaving heaps upon heaps, of their dying and dead; And the shout that went up with the set of the sun, Told the charge was triumphant, the great battle won; Told the charge was triumphant, the great battle won.
We're Madly for Adlai
Words and Music by Gilbert S. Watson
[photo of Adlai]
Published by TWEED ENTERPRISES, INC. P.O. Box 392, Lake Forest, ILL. Made in U.S.A.----
WE'RE MADLY FOR ADLAI
Words and Music by Gilbert S. Watson
Moderately, tempo di Marcia
We're madly for Adlai, for President A Statesman with experience is he
We're madly for Adlai for President He has the over all ability
He's courageous, honest too In him we all believe and with his know how
Copyright 1956 by Gilbert S. Watson, Chicago, Ill. Published by Tweed Enterprise, Inc., P.O. Box 392, Lake Forest, Ill. Made in U.S.A. All rights Reserved International Copyright Secured----
for the job he's what the people need.
We're with him and for him Hip, Hip, hooray!
The White House needs our Mister Stevenson
We're Madly for Adlai for President So let's send him down to Washington.