#2140 - 1. Battle cry of Freedom / 2. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp / 3. Red, White, and Blue / 4. Home, Sweet Home / 5. Marching Through Georgia
- Composer:
- 1) George Frederick Root (1820-1895), 1862
- 2) George Frederick Root (1820-1895), 1864
- 3) Thomas A. Beckett , 18431)
- 4) Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855) 1852
- 5) Henry Clay Work (1832-1884) 1865
- Title variations:
- Patriotic Medley
- Also known as:
- 2) Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching
- 2) Prisoner’s Hope
- 3) Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean
- 1) Lyrics: #390 - The Battle-cry of Freedom
- George Frederick Root (1820-1895), 1862
- 2) Lyrics: #229 - Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- George Frederick Root (1820-1895), 1864
- 3) Lyrics: #279 - Red, White and Blue
- David T. Shaw , 1843
- 4) Lyrics: #123 - Home, Sweet Home
- John Howard Payne (1791-1852)
- 5) Lyrics: #109 - Marching Through Georgia
- Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), 1865
- See also:
Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean was occasionally used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States until 1931.
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Some credit David T. Shaw as composer, but it is likely that Shaw initially commissioned Beckett to write the music to his lyrics, and a dispute arose when Beckett changed the lyrics. Interestingly, the lyrics were supposedly plagerized from Stephen Joseph Meany's poem Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean, written in 1842. See: http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000004/default.html
