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Word: risin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Worldly Music, Hill presented 15 campaign songs from forgotten elections, many of them set to popular tunes of their day: "Oh dear, what can the matter be?/Women are wanting to vote!"; a rollicking boast of "Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Time Trip | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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