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We are coming Father Abra'am: song

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Year:: 1860
Contributor:: Sporle, N. J. (Nathan James), 1812-1853 (composer); Oliver Ditson & Co (publisher)
Genre:: sheet music
Subject:: n-us---; Morris, Robert > 1810-1892 > Musical settings; Songs with piano; American poetry > 19th century > Musical settings; United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Songs and music; d1862
Local ID:: LMu 85
Extent:: 1 score (3 p.) ; 36 cm.

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Notes:: music by N.J. Sporle; For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB); From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346.; The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant.; Star with number 3-1/2 printed on t.p.

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Rights: No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use: Collection is open for research.

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Sporle, N. J. (Nathan James), "We are coming Father Abra'am: song " (1860). Lincoln Sheet Music. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:215492/

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We are coming Father Abra'am: song

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Lincoln Sheet Music

This database comprises sheet music from the McLellan Lincoln Collection at the Hay Library written between 1859 and 1923. Music about Lincoln ranges from popular song to compositions for orchestral performance. Popular music about Abraham Lincoln proliferated between 1859 and …
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