Who can tell me any more about this song lyric? "Save Your Confederate Money, Boys...

[Radio_Lady]

the South Will Rise Again."

Supposedly the composers were MARKS-FORT-STONE??? I can remember the tune, which is unusual -- and my husband swears it comes from a Broadway musical. Growing up in Florida, I must have heard it somewhere. My husband swears it comes from a Broadway musical -- but can't recall any details.

Here's what I picked up on the Internet:

Re: Politically Incorrect Lyrics

Here is one that isn't smutty or suggestive; what it is, is a genuinely POLITICALLY INCORRECT LYRIC and title of a well-known but infrequently played Jazz tune. 'Politically', because it involves politics, and 'incorrect', because, since the tune was written, what it heralds hasn't happened so far.

Specifically involved, are the currency of the two opposing political movements of America's North and South in the American Civil War, i.e. the Confederate Army and the Union Army. Dizzy Burton's Jazz Aces, and possibly Eric Batty's earlier Jazz Aces, used to play this spirited little tune. I heard it at the Thatched House, Cross St., Manchester (UK) in late 1959. I think I played it with them once. The title: "KEEP YOUR OLD CONFEDERATE MONEY, BOYS, THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN". Composer's name not (remembered) - but some bright spark out there will know.

Keep your old confederate money
Even though it’s made of tin
Press all those crinolines, honey
The South Shall Rise Again.

No, Susannah, don’t you cry for me
For I’m off to Alabama
In hopes to make it free.

Joe Silmon, 19th April 2006

Hi Fred, re Joe Silmon's query about "Save your Confederate money, boys," I'm the bright spark who knows the answer. The composers were Marks-Fort-Stone whoever they were. I know this because when I was with the Jazz Aces it was my record that we got the tune from ! How about that well known cry "I'm coming, Virginia?"

[petronius]

1. Here's a library listing with a little more info:

http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm-SheetMusic/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SheetMusic&CISOPTR=3684&CISOBOX=1&REC=1

You could search the names and companies in the listing and maybe find more...

[Silver Swan]

2. Thank you

for the link to that great site.

I am a great fan of old music, and that is a treasure trove.

[Radio_Lady]

4. Hey, good music sleuth work! Confirms that the song existed in 1949,

when I was ten years old and my husband was 15.

However, we thought it had a link to Broadway and/or a musical play or movie.

I can't get that settled and it looks as if finding anything more would take more time than I've got!

Thanks so much! :loveya:

[RushIsRot]

3. I have a nagging notion that Stan Freberg also used that line in

his version of Yellow Rose of Texas.