Welcome to Hardtack & Homespun on mp3.com. Our CD Marching On! Civil War Songs and Music from the North & South was created as part of the entertaining and definitive book Marching On! John Brown's Ghost from the Civil War to Civil Rights, by Robert Allen, Hardtack & Homespun's director and musical arranger. You can download or buy the DAM CD here, or you can get the book complete with commercial CD, the book alone, the commercial CD alone, or just download a PDF file of the CD booklet ... all from http://maltedmedia.com/hardtack/, our website.

Want to find out about the book? Ask Robert Allen at rwillis@johnbrownsbody.net.

And why are we here in this mp3.com section? Because there isn't a section on political music yet!

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"Amazing Grace" genre: Politics
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	John Newton, 1725-1807 ||| Early American Melody ||| Arranged by Robert W. Allen ||| This hymn was written by John Newton, formerly captain of a slave ship, then a minister in the Church of England. Late in life, Newton became convinced that slavery was wrong, and fought for the rest of his days to end slavery and slave trading in the British Empire.
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"Weeping Sad and Lonely, Scarlett's Waltz" genre: Politics
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	Words: Charles C. Sawyer ||| Music: Henry Tucker ||| Arranged by Robert W. Allen ||| Source: Sheet music published by Sawyer & Thompson (Brooklyn, New York, 1863). ||| In Margaret Mitchell’s book, Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara dance for the first time in Atlanta to a waltz which Scarlett identifies as "Weeping Sad and Lonely." This tune is not really a waltz. But, ah, I thought, what if it was? The result is this arrangement with Scarlett and Rhett tucked neatly between the second and third verses.
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"The Blue and The Gray" genre: Politics
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	Words: Francis Miles Finch ||| Music: Felix Schelling ||| Arranged by Robert W. Allen ||| Source: Sheet music published by Reed Meyer (Philadelphia, 1869). ||| On April 25, 1866, four women in Columbus, Mississippi, decorated the graves of Confederates buried in Friendship Cemetery. That same day, they also decorated the graves of 40 Union soldiers buried on the site. This act of generosity, reported in many of the nation's newspapers, inspired Francis Miles Finch, a lawyer from Ithaca, New York, to write the poem below.
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