. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Whats come of Eastman, and Nat Snow ? And where s War Barnett at ? And Nate and Bony Meek; Bill Hart; Sam Richas<,and that Air Ijrother of him played the drum as twicet as 115;^- i^-Jjm; And old Hi Koms, the carpenter — say, what s beotpwo him? I make no floubt yer new band now s a competenter band, And plays their music more by note than what they play by hand, And stylisher and grander tunes; but somehow —(7;/iway I want to hear the old band play. THE OLD BAND. 493. Sich tunes as John Browns Body, and Sweet Alice, dont you know;And The
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Whats come of Eastman, and Nat Snow ? And where s War Barnett at ? And Nate and Bony Meek; Bill Hart; Sam Richas<,and that Air Ijrother of him played the drum as twicet as 115;^- i^-Jjm; And old Hi Koms, the carpenter — say, what s beotpwo him? I make no floubt yer new band now s a competenter band, And plays their music more by note than what they play by hand, And stylisher and grander tunes; but somehow —(7;/iway I want to hear the old band play. THE OLD BAND. 493. Sich tunes as John Browns Body, and Sweet Alice, dont you know;And The Camels is A-comin, and John Anderson, my Jo ;And a dozent others of em — Number Nine and Number Leven Was favo-rites that fairly made a feller dream o when the boys ud saranade, I ve laid so still in bedI ve even heerd the locus blossoms droppin on the shedWhen Lily Dale, er Hazel Dell, had sobbed and died away —... I want to hear the old band play. The new band maybe beats it, but the old band s what I said — It alius peared to kind o chord with somepin in my head; And, whilse I m no musicianer, when my blame eyes is jes Nigh drownded out, and Memry squares her jaws and sort o says She wont ner never will fergit, I want to jes turn in And take and light right out o here and git back West agin — And stay there, when I git there, where I never haf to say I want to hear the old band play. Ja)nes Whitcontb Riley
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