A collection of lyrics written in New England in these categories - click links for listening samples:

Songs of Liberty:
"The Liberty Song" - words: John Dickinson, 1768/ arranged by William Arms Fisher
+"Thanksgiving Hymn" - words: unknown author, ca. 1783

Songs of the Tunesmiths:
+"Majesty" - William Billings, 1778
+"Victory" - Daniel Read, 1793
+"New Bethlehm" - Edward French, 1799

Songs of the Shakers:
"Simple Gifts" - Joseph Brackett, 1848
+"Welcome, Welcome" - Rosetta Cummings, 1869
+"We will all go home with you" - unknown author, 1862

Songs of Remembrance:
"America the Beautiful" - Katharine Lee Bates, 1895
+"Land of Our Hearts" - John Hill Ingram, 1918
+"Song of the Old Folks (tune" AULD LANG SYNE) - Albert Laighton, 1855
+"The Dark Night Is Ending" - John Greenleaf Whittier (edited and arranged by R. L. Hall)

Songs of War and Peace:
+"Father and I went down to camp (tune: YANKEE DOODLE) - Edward Bangs, ca. 1775 (arranged by William Arms Fisher)
+"John Brown" - C.S. Hall. ca. 1861 and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" - Julia Ward Howe, 1862

Supplement - Music From Our Tume
+"O Boston" - William Bradford, Pilgrim Poet (ed. R.L. Hall) - written for 200th anniversary of City of Boston in 1980
+"The Centennial Meditation of Columbia" - Sidney Lanier - written for the U.S. Centenniasl in 1876/ performed in 1983
+"A Gift Round" and +"A Sharing Round" - Roger L. Hall - written for tour of Russia and Estonia by Sharing A New Song, 1988


* = First recording = 15 titles

 

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No. 1: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 2: GOIN' HOME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 3:

ONE HORSE OPEN SLEIGH--
The Story of JINGLE BELLS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 4:

SIMPLE GIFTS --
Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 5:

SONG OF THE OLD FOLKS--
Father Kemp and Auld Lang Syne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 6:

FATHER AND I WENT DOWN TO CAMP--
The Boston Yankee Doodle Ballad

 

 

 

 

 

 

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