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The hidden flag : ballad / words by Rev. Herman Bokum ; music by W. C. Fischer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 17, no. 10
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, W. C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bokum, Hermann, 1807-1878.
- Songs with piano.
- Musical settings.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music.
- United States.
- History.
- Bokum, Hermann, 1807-1878--Musical settings.
- Bokum, Hermann.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Songs and music.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (5 pages) ; 34 cm
- Contained In:
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music.
- Other Title:
- O take, my friend, this flag from me.
- Then hide, my friends, this flag from me.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia (933 Spr. Garden St., Philadelphia) : Sep. Winner, [1866]
- Notes:
- Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.
- First line of text: O take my friend this flag from me.
- First line of refrain: Then hide my friends this flag from me.
- Verses 2-4 printed as text on p. 5.
- "When the family of the Rev. Herman Bokum was compelled to fly from East Tennessee to escape rebel persecution, his wife took the American flag, which had always floated over the house, and consigned it to a friend, to be hidden until they should be able again to raise it over their home"--Caption.
- Decorative title set within an ornamental frame / G.F. Swain.
- OCLC:
- 37735960
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