New "Twas the Week Before Christmas" thread

[hoosier]

It appears that our trivia game was not spared the depredations of the worm that attacked the website earlier this week. The question posted on Saturday has disappeared. There were at least a couple of responses in the queue, but I can't seem to access them.

So, I'm going to start a new thread to repeat the question and invite anybody who wants to do so to post a response. Aphillbilly and Lynne, if you can remember what your responses were, please post them again.

The question is - name the eight most popular Confederate songs of the Civil War.

As I said in the earlier thread, there are no "right" or "wrong" answers. In the modern music world, it's pretty well unheard of for the list of top ten songs as of any specific date to be the same as the list of top ten songs from a month, or even a week, earlier. Who's to say whether the song that was #8 on the Confederate hit parade in 1861 was still in the top eight in 1865?

But I hope we can have some fun with this. Everybody is invited to submit their own list of favorite Confederate songs, and at the end of the week, we can compare all the lists to each other (as well as the list that came out of Thea's book) and see how well they match up.

The next official game, in case anybody didn't get the word earlier, will start on January 1.

 

[rebelchick]

Here's my list again:

Bonnie Blue Flag
Dixie
Maryland, My Maryland
Cheer Boys Cheer
Lorena
Riding A Raid
Yellow Rose of Texas
Root Hog or Die

 

[aphillbilly]

George,
Sorry....Not a clue really

The ones I can recall offhand are
Dixie
Lorena
Jingle Bells
Good Ole Rebel Soldier

 

[bill_torrens]

It depends on whether the term "Confederate songs" encompasses songs which were popular in the South even if not Southern per se. Because two of the most popular would probably have been "Home, Sweet Home" and "Lorena".

(And I can't include my absolute favourite, "I'm A Good Old Rebel", because it would be of post-war origin. "Three hundred thousand Yankees are stiff in Southern dust"…wonderful stuff.)

If you'll let me include "Home, Sweet Home" & "Lorena" I'd guess that the other six might be:

Dixie

Bonnie Blue Flag

Southern Marseillaise

Richmond Is a Hard Road To Travel

The Southern Soldier Boy

Homespun Dress

 

[hoosier]

Not a great many responses this week. I'm not sure whether that's because everyone was busy with Christmas preparations or because Confederate music wasn't seen as a particularly interesting topic.

I am glad, however, that one of the three responders is a new participant in the game. Welcome, Rebelchick!

Although there is no official winner, Rebelchick matched the largest number of songs from the list that Thea gave me as the answer to this question, with four.

The list that Thea gave me named the following eight as the most popular Confederate songs of the war.

Dixie
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Lorena
Maryland, My Maryland
All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight
When This Cruel War Is Over
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Just Before the Battle, Mother

I note that everybody mentioned both "Dixie" and "Lorena." I would have guessed "Dixie," too, but "Lorena" doesn't ring any bells to me. I have no idea what that one sounds like.

The only one on the list I would think of as being Christmas-related would be "Maryland, My Maryland." Though the words don't have anything to do with Christmas, the tune is the same as that of the German Christmas carol, "O Tannenbaum."

I'll be posting the question for the coming week in a few minutes. This one will be more militarily related, so maybe we can get a few more people to try their luck at it.

The regular game, with five questions a week, will resume the night of January 1.