When We Go Marching Home

DESCRIPTION: "We've been upon the border for a couple of months or so; We're getting might tired, and we think it's time to go." The soldiers want to leave Mexico, so "Three cheers for New York town! When we'll go marching home." The miserable border life is described
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Lewis, Along the Rio Grande, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes Mexico
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 294-295, "When We Go Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Marching Through Georgia" (tune) and references there
File: LDC294

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