Songs About Lincoln

[LincolnMan]

(05-30-2021 06:37 PM)Steve Whitlock Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 06:03 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  I don’t anyone has posted this song about Lincoln. It’s called Mr. Lincoln by Hank Williams Jr.
Can someone post a link to it please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fANcsFseFo

I think this is what you asked for.

Yes. I just love this song!

[Gene C]

Abraham Lincoln (The Tall American) by Fess Parker

sorry, I originally posted the wrong song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjs6CCsrVg

[David Lockmiller]

(03-01-2022 05:58 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 06:37 PM)Steve Whitlock Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 06:03 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  I don’t anyone has posted this song about Lincoln. It’s called Mr. Lincoln by Hank Williams Jr.
Can someone post a link to it please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fANcsFseFo

I think this is what you asked for.

Yes. I just love this song!

Why doesn't Hank Williams, Jr do a "Lincoln" song about an innocent man being ordered to be executed by a five-to-four majority of the United States Supreme Court. I was there at the gates of San Quentin State Prison in California at 12:01 AM on the morning of July14, 1998 (Bastille Day) when Thomas Thompson, an innocent man, was executed and holding my sign in protest which read "UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTION." The sign still stands in the corner of my dining room to this day.

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(05-25-2023 09:35 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Abraham Lincoln (The Tall American) by Fess Parker

sorry, I originally posted the wrong song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjs6CCsrVg

Now, that's a good song!!! "He had the Lord by his side."

[AussieMick]

A Trivia question ... why do I include the following in a Thread about Lincoln ?

New York Volunteer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDsUDSzm3c

Yes , its a Civil War song. But why include it here in Lincoln songs?

[Gene C]

The words to this song are matched to the tune of an old English folk song called The Lincolnshire Poacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPxeSECEUY

[AussieMick]

Didnt take you long , did it Gene? Well done.

We used to sing it at school when listening to the BBC 'Broadcast For Schools' programme on the 'wireless' ( that's 'radio' to anybody born after 1970). If anybody had said I'd be writing about the New York Volunteers on the internet, we would have thought they were insane.