Songs about history

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Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders around the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century...



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About Teddy Roosevelt ~ He was graduated with the highest honors from Harvard, wrote 23 books, and was considered the world's foremost authority on North American wildlife. He was a prizefighting championship finalist, leader of the Rough Riders, a cowboy, a socialite, a police commissioner, a governor, a Vice-President and the 26th POTUS.
Rough Riders - The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress)

7th Calvary March Set to words...
 
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Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yeshcho razik, yeshcho da raz!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yeshcho razik, yeshcho da raz!
Razovyom my byeryozu,
Razovyom my kudryavu!
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Razovyom my kudryavu.
Razovyom my kudryavu.
Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yeshcho razik, yeshcho da raz!
My po byeryezhku idyom,
Pyesnyu solnyshku poyom.
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Pyesnyu solnyshku poyom.
Ey, Ey, tyani kanat silney!
Pyesnyu solnyshku poyom.
Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yeshcho razik, yeshcho da raz!
Ekh, ty, Volga, mat'-reka,
Shiroka i gluboka,
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Ai-da, da ai-da,
Volga, Volga, mat'-reka
Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yeshcho razik, yeshcho da raz!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Ey, ukhnyem!
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Now we fell the stout birch tree,
Now we pull hard: one, two, three.
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
Now we pull hard: one, two, three.
Now we pull hard: one, two, three.
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
As we walk along the shore,
To the sun we sing our song.
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
To the sun we sing our song.
Hey, hey, let's heave a-long the way
to the sun we sing our song
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Oh, you, Volga, mother river,
Mighty stream so deep and wide.
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
Ay-da, da, ay-da!
Volga, Volga, mother river.
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
The English lyrics above fit the melody. A more accurate translation of some lines are:

Poetic Literal
Now we fell the stout birch tree, We'll untwist the stout birch tree,
Now we pull hard: one, two, three. We'll untwist the curly tree!
Hey, hey, let's heave a-long the way Hey, hey, pull this way!
Mighty stream so deep and wide. Wide and deep,
 
A decade after the middle of the Nineteenth Century, America became "A House Divided"

Songs of the Civil War South

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Songs of the Civil War, North




 
After four famous Americans who were assassinated for being icons of freedom who were Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, this song was written by Dick Holler and was made famous by Dion's recording:

 
After four famous Americans who were assassinated for being icons of freedom who were Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, this song was written by Dick Holler and was made famous by Dion's recording:


Others sing it better than Moms, but no one else brings a tear to my eye with this one.



Greg
 

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