If you've ever wondered about the songs your ancestors sung or hummed while they worked and played, I burned the midnight oil last night uploading the last dozen or so songs to http://www.americanrevolution.org/songs.html There may be a few more, but for now I'll call the project finished. If some of the songs look different than others, it's because my main goal in formatting was to make them easy to print, so longer songs got different treatment than shorter ones, but they should all print in a convenient size for use by musicians. That is, unless you plan on sitting around a campfire with your fiddle and lap-top. One interesting thing I noted was that there were apparently twice as many love songs as other types. Even in my own younger days, there seem to have been at least two "Oh, Donna"'s for every "Purple People Eater." The other thing that struck me was the number of drinking songs then and now. Sociologists may be able to tell us more aboout the why's of this phenomenon (or lack thereof), but aside from "99 bottles of beer", the number of drinking songs I learned in my youth were a scant fraction of the bawdy songs we sang. And some will accuse me of historical inaccuracy and/or revisionism for not including any of "those" songs, but I try to keep my website family friendly. Best regards, Ed For Revolutionary War Info on the Internet, your first choice should be: www.AmericanRevolution.org

Hello: Enjoyed...are there any Religious songs they sung in that time frame? mary mc in Ga. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed St.Germain" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: [AMER-REV] 18th century songbook > If you've ever wondered about the songs your ancestors sung or hummed > while > they worked and played, I burned the midnight oil last night uploading the > last dozen or so songs to > http://www.americanrevolution.org/songs.html > > There may be a few more, but for now I'll call the project finished. > > If some of the songs look different than others, it's because my main goal > in formatting was to make them easy to print, so longer songs got > different > treatment than shorter ones, but they should all print in a convenient > size > for use by musicians. That is, unless you plan on sitting around a > campfire > with your fiddle and lap-top. > > One interesting thing I noted was that there were apparently twice as many > love songs as other types. Even in my own younger days, there seem to have > been at least two "Oh, Donna"'s for every "Purple People Eater." > > The other thing that struck me was the number of drinking songs then and > now. Sociologists may be able to tell us more aboout the why's of this > phenomenon (or lack thereof), but aside from "99 bottles of beer", the > number of drinking songs I learned in my youth were a scant fraction of > the > bawdy songs we sang. > > And some will accuse me of historical inaccuracy and/or revisionism for > not > including any of "those" songs, but I try to keep my website family > friendly. > > Best regards, > Ed > For Revolutionary War Info on the Internet, your first choice should be: > www.AmericanRevolution.org > > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION list, send the command > "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >