Position:Home>Genealogy> Can someone tell me a song thats related to migration??

I found several from around the Civil War!. Here they are

The Song of the Red Man (1868) Henry C!. Wok

When the palefaces came in their white-winged canoes,

Long ago, from the sun-rising sea,

When they asked for a lodge, and we did not refuse,

Happy then was the red man, and free!.

He could then choose a spot for his wigwam to stand!.

Where the forest was crowded with game;

For the blue-rolling lake and the ever-smiling land

Were his own till the palefaces came,

For the broad grassy plains and the forests deep and grand

Were his own till the palefaces came!.

They came! they came!

Like the fierce prairie flame,

Sweeping on to the sun-setting shore:

Gazing now on its waves,

But a handful of braves,

We shall join in the chase nevermore;

Till we camp on the plains

Where the Great Spirit reigns,

We shall join in the chase nevermore!.



When the oaks, pines, and cedars were felled to

the ground,

‘Twas a sight that with sorrow we saw;

For the game fled affrighted, and no food was found

For the old chief, the papoose and squaw!.

Driven westward we came, but the paleface was here,

With his sharp axe and death-flashing gun;

And his great Iron Horse now is rumbling in the rear

O my brave men! your journey is done!.

Like the beaver and elk, like the buffalo and deer,

O my brave men! your journey is done!.

They came! they came! etc!.



Uncle Sam’s Farm (1850) (E!. P!. Christy and Jesse Hutchinson)

Of all the mighty nations

In the East or in the West,

Oh, this glorious Yankee nation

Is the greatest and the best!.

We have room for all creation,

And our banner is unfurled,

Here’s a general invitation

To the people of the world!.



Then come along, come along!.

Make no delay;

Come from every nation,

Come from every way!.

Our lands, they are broad enough,

Don’t be alarmed!.

For Uncle Sam is rich enough

To give us all a farm!.



Our fathers gave us Liberty,

But little did they dream

The grand results that pour along

This mighty age of Steam:

For our mountains, lakes, and rivers

Are all a blaze of fire,

And we send our news by lightning

On the telegraphic wires!.

Then come along, Etc!.



Yes! We’re bound to beat the nations,

For our motto’s “Go ahead,”

And we’ll tell the foreign paupers

That our people are well fed;

For the nations must remember

That Uncle Sam is not a fool,

For the people do the voting,

And the children go to school!.

Then come along, Etc!.



We’ve a glorious Declaration

To protect us in our rights,

An instrument of Freedom,

For the blacks as well as whites!.

And the day is swiftly coming

When liberty’s bright sun

Shall shine with noonday splendor

In the land of Washington!.



O ye tiller of the soil,

In the East and in the West,

Come join the Greenback banner,

“Tis the wisest and the best;

It floats from the St!. Lawrence

And down to the Rio Grande,

Inviting you to organize

In one great union band



No Irish Need Apply (1863) O’Reilly

I’m a simple Irish girl,

And I’m looking for a place;

I’ve felt the grip of Poverty, But sure that’s no disgrace;

‘Twill be long before I get one,

Though indeed it’s hard I try,

For I read in each advertisement,

Alas! for my poor country,

Which I never will deny,

How they insult us when they write,

“No Irish need apply!.”


Then they can’t deny us genius,

With ”Sheridan” - “Tom Moore,” -

The late lamented “Catherine Hayes,”

And Sam Lover to the Fore, -

Although they may laugh at our “Bulls,”

They cannot but admit,

That Pat is always sensible,

and has a ready wit, -

And if they ask for Beauty,

What can beat their nice black Eye!?

Then is it not a shame to write,

“No Irish need apply”!?



Ah! but now I’m in the land

Of the “Glorious” and “Free,”

And proud I am to own it,

A country dear to me;

I can see by your kind faces,

That you will not deny

A place in your hearts for Kathleen,

And All Irish may apply!.

Then long may the Union flourish,

And ever may it be

A pattern to the world,

And the “Home of Liberty”!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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"The Exodus Song" (Pat Boone, 1964): lyrics tell about immigration to Israel

See: http://www!.music!.yahoo!.com/PatBoone/The-!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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