We are coming Father Abra'am: song

music by N.J. Sporle For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant. Star with number 3-1/2 printed on t.p.

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Original record: We are coming Father Abra'am: song
Collection: Lincoln Sheet Music
Date(s): 1810 – 1892
1862
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Oliver Ditson & Co (publisher)
Sporle, N. J. (Nathan James), 1812-1853 (composer)
Subject(s): 19Th Century
American poetry
Civil War, 1861-1865
Cullen Bryant
Evening Post
History
James Sloan Gibbons
Morris, Robert
Musical settings
Sheet Music
Songs and music
Songs with piano
United States
Type: notated music

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