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"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
The song also includes the American Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", whistled by Axl Rose in the intro and outro. "Civil War" is the B-side to the June 1991 release of Guns N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine" single, the promotional single for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. However, "Civil War" was not featured in the film.
The Civil War began shortly after the song's release; "Aura Lea" was adopted by soldiers on both sides, and was often sung around campfires. [ 1 ] The tune is familiar to modern audiences from the 1956 Elvis Presley #1 hit " Love Me Tender " with new lyrics by Ken Darby , a derivative adaptation of the original.
Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War is a compilation album of American Civil War music recorded by various artists. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was released on November 5, 2013 through ATO Records . The album was produced with the help of music supervisor Randall Poster , whose credits include work with Boardwalk Empire and Moonrise Kingdom . [ 3 ]
The "Civil War" EP (better known as simply Civil War) is the third extended play by Guns N' Roses, released in the UK only on May 24, 1993. It is named after the song of the same name . The EP is a compilation, departing from the band's previous two live-style EPs.
Songs of the Civil War is a compilation album, released in 1991 by Columbia, that presents an assortment of contemporary performers recording period pieces and traditional songs, most of which date back to the American Civil War.
The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is an American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War. Howe adapted her song from the soldiers' song " John Brown's Body " in November 1861, and sold it for $4 to The Atlantic Monthly [ 1 ] in February 1862.
The Confederacy's flag at the end of the American Civil War "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel", also called "The Good Old Rebel", is a pro-Confederate folk song and rebel song commonly attributed to Major James Innes Randolph. It was initially created by Randolph as a poem before evolving into an oral folk song and was only published in definitive written ...