Identifier	mdbv196_001
Title	Camp song of the Maryland line
Transcript	CAMP SONG OF THE MARYLAND LINE. We are the boys so gay and happy, Wherever we chance to be, If at home, or on camp duty, 'Tis the same, we're always free. So let the war guns roar as they will, We'll be gay and happy still: Gay and happy, gay and happy, We'll be gay and happy still. We've left our homes and all we cherish, In our loved old Maryland, Rather than wear chains we'll perish, Side by side, and sword in hand. So let the war guns roar as they will, We'll be gay and happy still; Gay and happy, gay and happy, We'll be gay and happy still. Old Virginia needs assistance, Northern hordes invade her soil; We'll present a firm resistance, Courting danger, death and toil. So let the war guns roar as they will, We'll be gay and happy still; Gay and happy, gay and happy, We'll be gay and happy still. R. M. Chambers, Baltimore, Md.
Publisher (Original)	R. M. Chambers
Subject	Broadsides United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Political ballads and songs War poetry, American
Description	Document containing the broadside entitled "Camp Song of the Maryland Line" a song more familiarly known as "Gay and Happy." Published in Baltimore by R. M. Chambers during the Civil War, this broadside became the camp song for Confederate Maryland soldiers who considered themselves the modern representatives of the "Old Line" state. (Editor's note: According to the Baltimore Sun of Dec. 24, 1895, the composition of "Camp Song of the Maryland Line" has usually been attributed to Thomas F. Roche, a Confederate Marylander and member of Maryland Company of the Twenty-first Virginia Regiment. In the prior digital version of this broadside, however, the author was listed as Frank Key Howard, grandson of Francis Scott Key and John Eager Howard and editor of the Baltimore "Daily Exchange" newspaper, who was imprisoned for writing an editorial critical of imprisonment without due process.)
Publisher (Electronic Version)	Enoch Pratt Free Library
Holding Institution	Enoch Pratt Free Library
Date Original	1861
Date Digital	2004-01-30
Type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of 1-page document, 14 x 9 cm.
Source	Maryland Department, Broadside Verses
Relation	Is Part Of the Maryland Department Broadside Verses Collection Is Part Of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program
Coverage	1861-1870
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