sword-songs

Updated: May 3, 2025

Patrick's Day," intermingled with the weird refrain of "Bonnie Dundee," and snatches of German sword-songs were drowned by the thrilling chorus of the "Star-Spangled Banner." Then some stentor would strike a stave of "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave,"

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War