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Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoners Hope)

Creator:
Root & Cady, George F. Root
Location:
Illinois, Cook County, Chicago
Origin Date:
Unknown
Materials:
paper
Item ID:
71.2009.083.0336
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, “Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoners Hope).” The cover features a decoratively illustrated frame with vignettes in the four corners. The vignettes are identified clockwise from the upper left corner as, “Within Sound of the Enemy’s Guns;” “Silent Lute;” “Who’ll Save the Left;” and “Battle Cry of Freedom.” At the top of the frame is a vignette of a large table with people seated around, “The Vacant Chair.” The title is printed in black lettering at the center of the frame with “As Sung by Edwin Kelly, Esq. at Kelly & Leon’s Academy of Music, Chicago” printed below it. 1 score (5, [1] p.) For voice and piano with chorus (SATB). First line of song: In the prison cell I sit. First line of chorus: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.