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BONNIE BLUE FLAG.
Harry Mccarthy.
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil,
Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far:
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far:
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
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As long as the Union was faithful to her trust,
Like friends and like brothers we were kind, we were just;
But now when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar,
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
Like friends and like brothers we were kind, we were just;
But now when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar,
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand,
Then came Alabama, who took her by the hand;
Next, quickly, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida,
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
Then came Alabama, who took her by the hand;
Next, quickly, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida,
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
Ye men of valor, gather 'round the Banner of the
Right,
Texas, and fair Louisiana join us in the fight;
Davis, our loved President, and Stephens, statesman rare,
Now rally 'round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
Texas, and fair Louisiana join us in the fight;
Davis, our loved President, and Stephens, statesman rare,
Now rally 'round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
And here's to brave Virginia! the Old Dominion
State,
With the young Confederacy at length has linked her fate;
Impelled by her example, now other States prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
With the young Confederacy at length has linked her fate;
Impelled by her example, now other States prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
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Then here's to our Confederacy! strong we are and
brave,
Like patriots old we'll fight our heritage to save;
And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer,
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Like patriots old we'll fight our heritage to save;
And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer,
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Then cheer, boys, cheer! raise the joyous shout,
For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out;
And let another roaring cheer for Tennessee be given—
The single star on the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be eleven!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out;
And let another roaring cheer for Tennessee be given—
The single star on the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be eleven!
Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
NOTE.—Miss Rutherford, in her "American Authors," alluding to this
song says: "General Butler threatened to fine any man, woman or child,
twenty-five dollars who sang, whistled, or played it, and then he arrested
the publisher, A. E. Blackmar (New Orleans), destroyed the sheet music,
and fined him five hundred dollars."
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