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Friedlander suggested it be built around a song already known as The Caisson Song (alternatively The Field Artillery Song or The Caissons Go Rolling Along). The song was thought to perhaps be of Civil War origin, and was unpublished, and its composer believed to be dead. Sousa agreed, changed the harmonic structure, set it in a different key ...
"The Army Goes Rolling Along" is the official song of the United States Army [1] and is typically called "The Army Song". It is adapted from an earlier work from 1908 entitled "The Caissons Go Rolling Along", which was in turn incorporated into John Philip Sousa's "U.S. Field Artillery March" in 1917.
The phrase, "let's roll" has been used as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called "The Army Goes Rolling Along", which likely extended into tank usage. "The Roads Must Roll", a science fiction story written in 1940 by Robert A. Heinlein, mentions a re-worded version of "The Roll of the Caissons" called "Road Songs of the Transport Cadets".
The way I learned the song it was caskets that go rolling along66.189.9.198 19:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC) My father, a WWII AAC vet taught me another version, reflecting the modernization of the military: Over hill, over dale, We have hit the dusty trail, With those caissons and hosses all gone.
A caisson (US: / ˈ k eɪ s ɒ n /) is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition; [3] the British term is "ammunition wagon". Caissons are also used to bear the casket of the deceased in some state and military funerals in certain Western cultures, including the United States .
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Van Zandt had previously recorded Lawton Williams's "Fraulein", which had been his father's favorite country song, on his classic 1972 album The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt. "Indian Cowboy" was written by musician Joe Ely who, in the 2004 biopic Be Here To Love Me , recalls first crossing paths with Van Zandt in Lubbock , Texas when he picked ...