Jackson County

DESCRIPTION: "Oh Jackson, our County, we greet thee, And sing with sweet Freedom's refrain, While the echoes o'er valley and hillside Resound with our county's high fame." It's by the Father of Waters , and named for General (Andrew) Jackson
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks)
KEYWORDS: nonballad home
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, pp. 22-23, "Jackson County" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #14052
NOTES [82 words]: McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks says this is sung to "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." I'd have guessed "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean." Admittedly both odd tunes for an inland state....
Jackson county is in southern Illinois, on the east bank of the Mississippi, explaining the reference to the Father of Waters. This means that the reference to Egypt must be to the region of Illinois around Cairo (known locally as "Egypt"), not to the nation around the Nile RIver. - RBW
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File: McIn022

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