THE PENNSYLVANIAN BATTLE CRY.
Philadelphia Song Sheets
Hark! the trumpet calls to duty (7 vs. and chor.) Tune—"Gay and Happy." By T. A' Becket; author of "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"; cop: 1861, T.A'Becket, EDPa.
Variant: a. Sold at Johnson's (2). Yellow paper; multi-line border. 23.7 x 15.2 cm.
Variant: b. [As above;] headed "Fifth Edition". 24.3 x 13 cm.
Variant: c. Headed: "Second Edition"; print. Johnson (3). T. o. border. 24.5 x 15 cm.
Variant: d. [Without "By T.A'Becket" and copyright;] title: "The Maryland Battle Cry"; with words changed to apply to Maryland. T. o. border; figure of Liberty with scales and sword. 25.7 x 8.7 cm. (cropped)
Variant: e. Title: "We Are For The Union"; "As Sung by Our Volunteers"; with comma after "Tune"; 8 vs. and chor.; [without author's name and copyright.] Double-line border. 20.2 x 12 cm.
Song sheets
digitool:47990
Wolf 1866
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Part of American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870.