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Description and Notes
music composed by Stephen C. Foster.
For voice and piano, with chorus refrain.
Text from poem first published in the New York evening post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346.
The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant or J. [!] Cullen Bryant.
"Respectfully dedicated to the President of the United States."
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First line of text: We are coming Father Abraam.
First line of chorus: We are coming, coming our union to restore.