Stars and Stripes

The Stars and Stripes
the tune is "The Irish Jaunting Car" ("The Bonnie Blue Flag") - I found the lyrics in Irwin Silber's Songs of the Civil War (NY, Columbia University Press, 1960: reprinted Mineola, NY, Dover Publications, 1995 - page 34) and the MIDI sequance is used non-commercially courtesy of The Music of the American Civil War. Mike Murley

Brothers of free descent were we
    And native to the soil,
Knit soul to soul in one great whole,
    Fruit of our Father's toil;
But when that bond of love was rent,
    The cry rose near and far,
"To arms! To Arms! Long Live the stripes!
    We know no 'single star'!"

Chorus
Hurrah! hurrah! For the Union flag, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Union flag that knows no "single star!"

So long as Southern arrogance forebore
    To touch that flag,
Full many a taunt we meekly bore,
    And many an idle bragg,
But went on Sumter's battlements
    The traitors did it mar,
We flung abroad that Union flag,
    That ne'er shall lose a star!

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