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Uploaded by on Oct 16, 2008

the 97th regimental string band plays the song weeping sad and lonely

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  • Love you boys, even if you are Yankees! ;) In all frankness though, the 97th are probably my favorite re-enactment band.

  • Thank you for not letting this beautiful piece of music die. Wonderful job.

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  • i can remember Bill Anderson humming this...

  • "When This Cruel War is Over"

    Southerners changed "blue" to "grey."

  • popular song whose sheet mmusic sold nearly a million copies during the war

  • @MrsFiddlePlayer

    scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheet­music/a/a48/a4826/a4826-1-72dp­i.html

  • I found the below website quite by accident, which led me to this youtube posting. Thanks so much. I love this.

    A Civil War tune: Words by Charles Carroll Sawyer, Music composed and arranged by Henry Tucker

  • ken burns?

  • nice south took dixie the north takes when this cruel war is over.

  • This song makes me cry every time.

  • @kevinkards Very interesting! Charley Zahm says the same thing about "Lorena." The men were forbidden to sing it because it was so heatbreaking. I'm not sure it stopped them, though!

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