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Away Goes Cuffee or Hooray for '63
- Creator:
- Oliver Ditson & Co., L. B. Starkweather
- Location:
- Massachusetts, Boston
- Origin Date:
- 1863
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0221
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Sheet Music
Description
This is a piece of sheet music for the song, “Away Goes Cuffee or Hooray for '63." "Away Goes Cuffee" is printed in black lettering in an arch near the center of the cover with the letter "A" in Away illustrated as logs of wood. The head of an African American is illustrated coming through the letter A. "Hooray for '63" is printed in black and white lettering on a banner below the illustration. 1 score ([5] p.) For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB). First line of text: Abram Linkon las' September. First line of chorus: For de cannon may boom. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.
