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The Charlie Daniels Band song, "Trudy", compares the taking of Richmond by Grant with the narrator saying that he was "raking in chips like Grant took Richmond" in a poker game. In 1969 The Band released "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which features the lyric, "...by May the 10th (1865) Richmond had fell, it was a time I remember oh so ...
For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! We are very much perplexed to know who is the next To command the new Richmond expedition, For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. We'll take the cursed town, and then we'll burn it down, And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel;
The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Jennings and Colter met and married in 1969. As Jennings recalled in the audio version of his autobiography Waylon, "I went through my marriages like Grant went through Richmond. I finally gave up. I said, 'Hell, I ain't ever gonna be able to be married.'
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Last month saw country singer Jason Aldean take the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with “Try That in a Small Town.”. The song’s lyrics suggest that small towns have little ...
Nicholas Temperley wrote in The Hymn Tune Index that Luther "wished his congregations to take part in the singing, but in general they failed to do so" and "It was the Calvinist, or 'Reformed', branches of Protestantism that succeeded in establishing congregation hymn singing in worship."
The group reportedly auditioned the song for famed record producer Bobby Robinson while he was sick in bed, but he rejected them, stating the song "wasn't commercial enough". [5] When the Chords recorded their debut single for Cat Records, a cover of Patti Page 's " Cross Over the Bridge ", the label reluctantly allowed them to record "Sh-Boom ...