Performance Programs
Sara & Maynard Johnson
M
usic and Politics and Current Events
Songs written to memorialize events
Broadsides new lyrics to known melodies
Yankee Doodle
Cornwallis danced a country dance
I Only Know 187 Verses, but My sister knows all of them
Lewis & Clark Captain Lewis
Yorktown Surrender and What was Played
World Turned Upside Down Cromwell period
When the King Receives His Own Again
General Lafayette’s Band and Yankee Doodle
Vicar of Bray Colonial version
The Blackbird and Old Tory The song that led to murder
Washington’s March - as popular as Yankee Doodle
Jefferson & Liberty election of 1800
Adams and Alien and Sedition Acts Illegal to criticize the president
Representative Matthew Lyon of Vermont and Griswold, the Battle in Congress with fire tongs, hickory stick and spit
Adams and Lyon and Alien and Sedition Act
Night Before Larry Was Stretched
Yankee Doodle
Making Fun of France - F&I, Revolution, the Quasi War
Heart of Oak - Liberty Song
Roast Beef of Old England
Ca Ira and Downfall of Paris
God Save the United States
The quasi-war with France
Truxton’s Victory and Heart of Oak
War of 1812 and 1812/14 in Europe
Anacreon Adams & Liberty - Battle on the Wabash
Hulls Victory - The Constitution and the Guerriere
Francis Scott Key, Roger Taney and Ferdinand Durang
Napoleon Madame Bonaparte, Downfall of Paris