This anecdote gives us a sense of the breathless pace of events in the first year of the war, even far from the front lines.
Publisher Flying Squirrel Entertainment Developer Flying Squirrel Entertainment Nov. ‘The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah!’Īnd at the fourth verse a thousand voices were joining in the chorus. Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America. A patriotic song advocating the causes of Unionism and abolitionism, it became so popular that composer H. Then Jule’s magnificent voice gave out the song, and Frank’s trumpet tones led the refrain - The 'Battle Cry of Freedom', also known as 'Rally 'Round the Flag', is a song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root (18201895) during the American Civil War. They went through the new song once, and then hastened to the steps of the court-house, followed by a crowd that had gathered while the practice was going on. The ink was hardly dry when the Lumbard Brothers - the great singers of the war - came in for something to sing at a war meeting that was to be holden immediately in the court-house square just opposite. I thought it out that afternoon, and wrote it the next morning at the store. In his autobiography The Story of a Musical Life, Root relates how “Immediately a song started in my mind” when he heard of President Lincoln’s first call for 300,000 volunteers: Keith and Rusty McNeil perform both the Battle Cry of Freedom and Southern Battle Cry of Freedom on "Civil War Songs with Historical Narration" (WEM Records, 1989, ISBN 1-87)īilly Bragg wrote a song based upon the 'Battle Cry of Freedom' with a socialist slant called There is power in a Union on the Talking with the Taxman about Poetry album.George Root composed his “Battle Cry of Freedom” in Chicago in 1862, just before a major recruitment rally. Ry Cooder performed this song as Rally 'Round the Flag on his Boomer's Story album. While we rally round the cause, boys, we'll rally in our might, Our noble women also have aided them at home.Ĭhorus Chorus (1864 election campaign) įor Lincoln and Johnson, hurrah, boys, hurrah!ĭown with the rebellion and on with the war, While our boys have responded and to the fields have gone. Their motto is resistance - "To tyrants we'll not yield!" They have laid down their lives on the bloody battle field. Our gallant boys have marched to the rolling of the drums.Īnd the leaders in charge cry out, "Come, boys, come!" We'll rally 'round the bonny flag, we'll rally once again, Our Dixie forever! She's never at a loss!ĭown with the eagle and up with the cross! Our flag is proudly floating on the land and on the main,īeneath it oft we've conquered, and we'll conquer oft again! So we're springing to the call from the East and from the West,Īnd we'll hurl the rebel crew from the land we love best, We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave,Īnd although he may be poor, not a man shall be a slave, We are springing to the call with a million freemen more,Īnd we'll fill our vacant ranks of our brothers gone before,
While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again,
We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Publisher: Edison Gold Moulded Record Issued Date: 1904 Topics: History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Popular music. Yes we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, This is notable, because their citizens were enemies but sung the same patriotic song. There are two lyrics, a Union and a Confederate version.
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