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So join right in and gloat about the War of 1812
Does the U.S. have any songs of the War of 1812? The national anthem doesn't count. I have trouble imagining they weren't written, but I realized a few days ago that the only ones I know are Canadian: Stan Rogers' "MacDonnell on the Heights," Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's "The White House Burned (The War of 1812)," and now Tanglefoot's "Secord's Warning." Am I just seeing the difference in the war's importance between countries? Was the whole engagement so nationally embarrassing that even the American folk tradition tried to forget about it? In the course of writing this post I remembered "The Hunters of Kentucky," but I believe it owes its prominence to Andrew Jackson using it as a campaign song and I still can't think of anything more recent.1 Is there a very simple explanation I'm missing because I tapped out of formally taught American history at the end of eighth grade?
[edit] I have been reminded of the existence of Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans," which I encountered as a child, but had forgotten about completely.
1. And in fact I learned it from the curtain call of Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers' Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2010), a musical I cannot honestly recommend listening to right now. Some of the lyrics of "Populism, Yea, Yea!" are a little too on point.
[edit] I have been reminded of the existence of Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans," which I encountered as a child, but had forgotten about completely.
1. And in fact I learned it from the curtain call of Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers' Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2010), a musical I cannot honestly recommend listening to right now. Some of the lyrics of "Populism, Yea, Yea!" are a little too on point.
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Okay! I heard and/or read the lyrics to this song as a child: I recognize the first and second-to-last verses and the chorus. It's quoted/parodied in the Three Dead Trolls song:
Oh, we fired our guns, but the Yankees kept a-coming
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and the Yankees started running
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
They ran through the snow and they ran through the forest
They ran through the bushes where the beavers wouldn't go
They ran so fast, they forgot to take their culture
Back to America and Gulf and Texaco
I don't own a recording. It had completely skipped my mind. Thank you!