Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching

[graemec150917]

We're on the march with Ally's Army! lol

[jacobwolf124]

Damn,both versions are good.

[AverellDalton]

Deutschland, Deutschland, er soll ein sein; sozialistisch und vereint. Unter Führung der Partei, kämpfen wir und werden frei...

Seems like the DDR borrowed the tune too. 

[Dicknose88]

The 1st POW song and still the best!!! BTW the rest of the CD is pretty good too.

[SexiSnipeZ]

(:

love this.

[ConrailDave1999]

The Guy at 0:20 looked like someone on my soccer team.

[whiskerchild]

You know, my Dad, who served in WW2, would playfully rearrange the words to this song thusly: "Tramp, tramp........boys are marching, out stepped Kaiser by the door; picked up a pie and hit 'em in the eye, and you won't see Kaiser anymore........."

So the men who served in W W II used this song also..... interesting, huh?

[BenAliGtor]

A good version to teach the kids when you're tired of "Jesus Loves the Little Children".....but they're not quite old enough for "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos".

[KSCrosby]

fun to sing in the car to make the kids crazy-''Stooop Moooom, stooop!"

[unionpvt]

great musick it made me cry its a great song to honor thos valiant men who gave the last full mesure of devotion to ur contry!!!!!

[EMesaros]

@EMesaros So what this guy is doing, is trying to keep his friends' spirits up: not an easy thing in the war prisons of those days. That was a dreadful thing. Anyway, did you ever hear the beautiful version of this done by the 97th Regimental String Band on Ytube? It is gorgeous. All their songs are wonderful. I am in the process of learning these for a civil war program wher a friend and I have been asked to sing. More fun!

[EMesaros]

@soyereses Can't make it work. I will try tomorrow.

[soyereses]

@EMesaros Such an error always occurs on me too. Anyway search "ThHflcafQJs" and "eVFEKPkp6Oo" on Utube, and watch them.

For a long long time I have thought that "ThHflcafQJs" derives from "eVFEKPkp6Oo". At a Brazilian church recently built neighborhood of my home, this tune is used for a hymn, combined with the Portuguese ver. of "Jesus loves me".

[assassinater425]

Its like Battle Hymn Of The Republic but with different words

[soyereses]

I'm Japanese and this melody is used for the cheering song of my alma mater.

[EMesaros]

@soyereses Oh, that is so interesting! How a good piece of music does get around! Have you listened to the version of this by the 97th Regimental (New York) String Band? It is easy to find on Ytube. They are wonderful.

[EMesaros]

@EMesaros to soyereses I am trying to answer, but I can't get through! I keep getting "error."

[ChesterUC]

POR LA PATRIA, DIOS Y LA UNIVERSIDAD (8)

This song gave rise to the football team's anthem "Universidad Católica" of Chile.

[lasalleman]

Pretty Good visuals.

[prayan12345]

we sang this as our schoir song!!its really gr8!!

[ih234]

I love the chorus and harmonious singing of this song.

[Jubilo1]

Outstanding and emotionaly touching. Makes one want to put down the Rebellion !

[galoon]

Outstanding version of this song, rexlibris!! What a talented choir this is!

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Wow.....Really nice!

Would love to know how to find this recording.

[Deadboltt]

The christians really bastardized this song with "Jesus loves the little children". Very disrespectful to those who gave their lives for freedom imo.

[GettysburgGhost1863]

They just borrowed the tune. There's no dishonor in that.

[rexlibris99]

My understanding is that Root was perfectly agreeable to that so I'm unsure why Deadboltt feels that way.

[backnumber1662]

Mr Root endorsed the song "Jesus loves the little children"

[NHSActor]

@backnumber1662

In the 1870's, George Root published a hymnal for a Massachusetts Church. The song "Jesus Loves the Little Children" was included in this hymnal. The lyrics, by Clare Herbert Woolston, were approved by Root himself, who thought it a wonderful use for his song after the end of the war.

[howtoplanaparty]

There have been all kinds of folks, who have called themselves "Christians", yet they are not of the same ilk, as one another. There is no single "type" of man, who might be labeled as "Christian".

[Mirkwoodelves]

A melody is a melody, they are adapted all the time. It is the feeling the words are sung with that matters.

[SouthrnConservative]

Great song -- i've been looking for this for quite a while. All I found was the confederate version.

[rexlibris99]

Root's version was original, and much better, so I'm surprised by that. The lyrics and sound file were pretty easy to locate.

[ewd76]

@SouthrnConservative

Where is it? The only one I can find if the northern version?

[blacklion1798]

@SouthrnConservative it's messed up how to this very day people from all regions of the united states have such a raging hard-on for all things confederate

[MrTThorne93]

@SouthrnConservative The confederate Version is like the nazis bitching about their own death camps . DEATH TO THE SOUTH GOD SAVE AMERICA DEATH TO THE NAZI CONFEDERACY

[595263]

What a wonderful song.Thankyou rexlibris99.

[camprandle]

Tramp, tramp, tramp, Uncle Sam over North Korea!

[yamiyugikun]

YES!

[oldscout379]

Thanks for the posting. Do you know where I could get a transcript of the lyrics? This a bittersweet song for me as my great-greatgrandfather was imprisoned in an Union camp where his health was broken. He died on the way home after being paroled/pardoned by President Lincoln in '65 before the war ended in April. He was accused of being a Confederate sympathizer because the Federal telegraph lines were destroyed that were on his property although he had two sons in the Union Forces.

[rexlibris99]

I added the lyrics to the introduction. There are different versions of the song with slightly different lyrics. You can generally find these on Google fairly easily.

It seems that both sides were intolerant of anyone who might have interfered with telegraph lines, bridges or railroads. Unfortunately, as in your ggf's case, most of them were innocent.

[redconfederate]

@oldscout379 was ur kin in the prison camp duglas in chacogo?

[MrTThorne93]

@redconfederate there was no camp douglas you illiterate hick . There was detention centers in chicago

[FeSo4man]

Great song!! Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle C.

Yeah, its jesus loves the little children. My mom wanted to know when I was playing the version I have on my computer "why are you listening to jesus loves the little children?" Lol

[TrojanSkyCop]

--FeSo4man and Rex,

FYI, besides "Jesus Loves the Little Children," it's also the melody for "God Save Ireland."

[linescruzadas]

excellent song.

[Seryuis]

This is a wonderful song. Who wrote this song ? I mean Yankees or Confederates ?

[rexlibris99]

This song was written by George Root who also wrote, among others, The Battle Cry of Freedom. It is a Union song.

[t800rad2]

There is also a Confederate version of this song, which changes the lyrics slightly.

[adiladil78]

Excellent!

[Anwar1D]

Thanks for sharing, rex.

[Einmote]

Thanks rexlibris99 for getting back to me :)

[Einmote]

Can anyone tell me if this is the same music as Jesus loves the little children?

[rexlibris99]

Yes, the music was written for Tramp, Tramp, Tramp by George Root. It was later adapted for Jesus Loves the Little Children with new lyrics by C. Herbert Woolston. Unsure of the exact date but it would have been between 1864 and 1895.

[setembro14]

muito bonito!