A Song from The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg

[LincolnMan]

Carl Sandburg's book The American Songbag is a wonderful collection of early American songs totaling 280 in the 1927 edition. Most of the songs contained therein are long forgotten by the public. Maybe Sandburg was aware that they were doomed to extinction if someone didn't "capture" them in his day. The following song is entitled: Lincoln And Liberty. It was sung to the tune of "Old Rosin Bow" for the campaign of 1860:

Lincoln And Liberty


Hurrah for the choice of the nation!
Our chieftain so brave and so true;
We'll go for the great reformation,
We'll go for the son of Kentucky,
The hero of Hoosierdom through;
The pride of the Suckers so lucky,
For Lincoln and Liberty too.


They'll find what by felling and mauling,
Our rail-maker stateman can do;
For the people are everywhere calling
For Lincoln and Liberty too.
Then up with our banner so glorious,
The star-spangled red, white, and blue,
We'll fight till our banner is victorious,
For Lincoln and Liberty too.