The President is dead

By George Russell Jackson. Printed on laid, watermarked paper within mourning border. To be sung to the tune: The morning light is breaking. Text of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas. At end of text: This hymn will be set to music by White, Smith & Co., Boston.

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Original record: The President is dead
Collection: Harris Broadsides
Date(s): 1831 – 1881
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Jackson, George Russell. (creator)
Subject(s): Assassination
Broadsides
Death in poetry
Garfield, James A. (James Abram)
Massachusetts
Poetry
Somerville
United States
Type: text

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