SOLDIER SONGS

AND

LOVE SONGS

BY

A.H. LAIDLAW

PRESS OF WILLIAM R. JENKINS NEW YORK 

 COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY A.H. LAIDLAW  [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED] 

 Dedicated TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE UNITED STATES THE TWO ARMS OF AMERICAN SALVATION 

CONTENTS.

 PREFACE. SONGS. CUSTER. THE AMERICAN GIRL. THE GOOD SHIP "OHIO." THE AMERICAN GIRLS. THE UNION OATH. BETSIE BROWN. SWORD OF JEHOVAH. BLACK EYES. THE AMERICAN ÇA IRA. BIRD OF THE SUMMERING NORTH. THE WAR SONG OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. THE LIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES. BABYLON. THE BRITISH GYP. DEATH SONG OF THE ENFANTS PERDUS. FARE THEE WELL, O LOVE OF WOMAN! EVER TO BE. JOCK AND JEAN. THE FLAG OF BROTHERS. WITH A HO-HO-HO! AND A HI-HI-HI! SEE THE FIELD OF BATTLE GLEAMS. THE DYING SOLDIER TO THE NIGHTINGALE. BURKE OF THE BRAVE BRIGADE. TEARS, TEARS. SHERRY IN THE SADDLE. HOME! HOME! THE CUSTER WAIL. WEEP NOT FOR HIM. TARRY YE NOT IN EGYPT. GIF A LASSIE SPURN A LADDIE. THE AMERICAN CONSUMMATION. THE YOUNG VETS. MAIDEN KNICKERBOCKER AND THE GALLANT CAPTAIN PICKWICK IT IS TIME TO BEGIN TO CONCLUDE. MARSHAL NEY'S FAREWELL. THE LILY LAND OF FRANCE. THE THREE P'S. 

PREFACE.

In issuing this collection of Songs, the author makes the following acknowledgments:—

"The American Ça ira" was suggested while reading the French song of that name, from which song the phrase ça ira alone was appropriated.

In "The Song of William the Conqueror," his characteristic oath, "By the splendor of God!" is used.

In the "Death Song of the Enfants Perdus," a few remembered lines or fragments have been appropriated from an anonymous and almost forgotten English ballad.

"Burke of the Brave Brigade" was written in 

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