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Jedidiah 1777 by Eliza Gilkyson. From her 2005 album Paradise Hotel.
One of Gilkyson's ancestors, Jedidiah Huntington, fought in the Revolutionary War, and the lyrics of this song are her rendition of his actual letters to his family, some home and some to his brothers and father, who were also fighting on the side of the Colonists. There are mundanities ("Send the cloth for a good waistcoat. / I dream of your hearth and the fields of oat. / I wake to the drum and the trembling note of the fifer.") and profundities ("We've provision enough for the day, / but if victory were just for the wealthy, / our noble cause wouldn't be worth the hardship or suffering.").
There's only this one song for right now, but I'll look through my collection and see what I can come up with. I've got an idea for one, but I have to get iTunes to cooperate so I can buy it, first.
Jedidiah 1777 by Eliza Gilkyson. From her 2005 album Paradise Hotel.
One of Gilkyson's ancestors, Jedidiah Huntington, fought in the Revolutionary War, and the lyrics of this song are her rendition of his actual letters to his family, some home and some to his brothers and father, who were also fighting on the side of the Colonists. There are mundanities ("Send the cloth for a good waistcoat. / I dream of your hearth and the fields of oat. / I wake to the drum and the trembling note of the fifer.") and profundities ("We've provision enough for the day, / but if victory were just for the wealthy, / our noble cause wouldn't be worth the hardship or suffering.").
There's only this one song for right now, but I'll look through my collection and see what I can come up with. I've got an idea for one, but I have to get iTunes to cooperate so I can buy it, first.