Liberty or loyalty

Here is 90 minutes of music from the American Revolution.

Bessie Fisher

How songs were used to further the cause of the American Revolution.

Henry and John Laurens

NATHan Hale

Valley Forge

Patriotic QUakeress

Another woman, Mistress Robert Murray, also outwitted the Redcoats by detaining them at their house, giving Old Putnam and his men time to escape. She and her daughters were charming and perhaps they entertained General Howe and his men with this nonsense song, Jennie Jenkins.

Tempy Wicks

Nathaneal Greene

Marion the Swamp Fox

An Old Time Decoration Day

Friends from Across the Sea

The End of the War

The World Turned Upside Down is an English ballad. It first appeared in the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament under Cromwell who banned the traditional English celebrations of Christmas. They thought the holiday should be a solemn occasion.

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According to some accounts, the British army band, under Lord Cornwallis, played the tune when they surrendered at Yorktown. A rag tag army defeating the greatest military power in the world at the time certainly made it appear the world had turned upside down!