Fighting Sixty-Ninth, The

DESCRIPTION: "We're not a warring nation, but we have to take a stand, To help the other nations and save our native land." So America has sent the 69th. "They'll fight, fight fight, because they know the right." Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue
AUTHOR: Anna L. Hamilton (source: Silverman-BalladsAndSongsOfWWI)
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (source: Silverman-BalladsAndSongsOfWWI)
KEYWORDS: soldier | World War I
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Silverman-BalladsAndSongsOfWWI, opp. 93-95, "The Fighting Sixty-Ninth" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #41581
NOTES [120 words]: Not to be confused with "The Irish Sixty-Ninth," nor Ned Harrigan's "The Gallant Sixty-Ninth," which are about an American Civil War regiment. Both songs are about the Sixty-Ninth New York Regiment, but they aren't really the same regiment; they just have the same number.
Furthermore, there was another World War I song entitled "The Fighting Sixty-Ninth,: words by Jerome J. McCuen, music by Everett J. Evans, which begins "There's a band of Irish soldiers On the firing line in France" and which has a chorus which begins, "They are Irish, Yes they're Irish, Old Erin gave them birth." That song is Roud #41581, and it is not this. I'm including an entry for this one just to establish that they are not the same. - RBW
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