ISBN: 9780826265340

Cold water is the drink for me Of all the drinks the best, sir;Your grog, of whate'er name it be,I dare not for to taste, sir. Such a lyric, sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," was typic… Mehr…

Cold water is the drink for me Of all the drinks the best, sir;Your grog, of whate'er name it be,I dare not for to taste, sir. Such a lyric, sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," was typical ammunition in the temperance movement's battle against alcohol. From the 1840s until the beginning of Prohibition, well over one hundred temperance songbooks were published in which inspirational lyrics were set to mostly borrowed tunes in the hope of persuading citizens to put Cold water is the drink for me Of all the drinks the best, sir;Your grog, of whate'er name it be,I dare not for to taste, sir. Such a lyric, sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," was typical ammunition in the temperance movement's battle against alcohol. From the 1840s until the beginning of Prohibition, well over one hundred temperance songbooks were published in which inspirational lyrics were set to mostly borrowed tunes in the hope of persuading citizens to put down the bottle. Despite the prominent place of music in the temperance movement, little has been written about the large volume of lyrics it produced. This book, the most extensive on the subject in nearly thirty years, presents more than four hundred of those lyrics and the thirty-two melodies most often employed, from "Auld Lang Syne" to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Paul D. Sanders has assembled the various songs the movement used into five thematic chapters: patriotic songs, hymns, traditional Scottish songs, popular songs, and Civil War songs. In each, he offers an introductory commentary, provides the music for the original song to remind readers of the tune, and then presents the temperance versions chronologically with the lyricists' names where known. Textbooks Digital, Books~~History~~Military~~United States, Lyrics-and-Borrowed-Tunes-of-the-American-Temperance-Movement~~Paul-D-Sanders, , , , , , , , , , University of Missouri Press<