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"Kingdom Coming", also known as "The Year of Jubilo", is an American Civil War song, written and composed by Henry C. Work in 1862, prior to the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The song is pro-Unionist, and the lyrics are sung from the point of view of slaves in Confederate territory, who celebrate their impending freedom after their master flees the approach of Union military forces. They speculate on the future fate of the owner, whom they suspect will pretend to be a runaway slave in order to avoid capture. With their owner absent, the slaves revolt, locking their overseer in a cellar as retribution for his harsh treatment toward them. The slaves then celebrate their impending emancipation by Union soldiers by drinking their absent owner's cider and wine in his kitchen.[1] Work also wrote the song "Babylon is Fallen" ("Don't you see the black clouds risin' ober yonder") which sees the American Civil War from the perspective of the black U.S. soldiers fighting for the Union. HistoryThe lyrics of "Kingdom Coming" are written in an exaggerated dialect that Work presumably believed was typical of Southern blacks, and the words are now rarely sung. Instead, the tune is usually played as a lively instrumental, as in the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War. Sample lyrics
In popular cultureCartoonsThe song became the opening music for the character Pooch the Pup, starting with the 1932 cartoon The Under Dog.[2] "Kingdom Coming" appears in two MGM animated cartoons directed by Tex Avery, The Three Little Pups,[3] (with Droopy) and Billy Boy, as well as in Michael Lah's Blackboard Jumble and Sheep Wrecked. The piece is whistled throughout all four pictures by a dimwitted wolf character voiced by Daws Butler (using the same slow Southern drawl he would later employ for Huckleberry Hound). This wolf character has no official name, but is commonly referred to as "Jubilo Wolf", in reference to the alternate "Year of Jubilo" title. It also occasionally appears in Warner Bros. cartoons, such as being used throughout the 1938 Porky Pig cartoon Injun Trouble and its 1945 remake Wagon Heels, and the closing scenes of the 1945 Bugs Bunny cartoons The Unruly Hare and Hare Trigger. Western pop singer "Tennessee" Ernie Ford had a hit record in 1958 entitled "Sunday Barbecue" which became the latest reincarnation of the original tune. FilmsIn Too Busy To Work (1932), Jubilo (Will Rogers) sings the song to his daughter Rose (Marion Nixon). In The Telegraph Trail (1933), John Trent (John Wayne) whistles this tune. It is instrumental background music in The Horse Soldiers (1959) (also starring Wayne). (Hear the second piece in the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knQahiIpwYw). In Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Esther Smith (Judy Garland) sings new lyrics, written for the movie, to the tune of "Year of Jubilo". The lyrics are in standard English and are inoffensive, with no reference to slavery, the Civil War, or any other controversial subject. BooksThe Year of Jubilo was the sequel to Ruth Sawyer's fictionalized autobiography Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal.[4]OtherThe tune of "Kingdom Coming" was the opening theme for the NBC radio show The Chase and Sanborn Hour from 1940 to 1949. In the late 40's, this tune, played by a string orchestra, was also used in a radio contest similar to "Name That Tune," called "Stop The Music", wherein random people were called on the phone and asked if they could name it for a substantial monetary prize. Most people could not, mistaking it for "The Old Grey Mare", which it resembles only slightly in its rhythm. The tune was also used in the intro to the second movement of John Phillip Sousa's cubaland suite. A compilation of folk songs from Spain in mvt. 1 America in mvt. 2 and Cuba in mvt. 3 Notable recordings
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1. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=ph6HZ9_3Ji0C&pg=PA306&dq=kingdom+coming+civil+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFvr_uuaTMAhWEWj4KHZTGCgEQ6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=kingdom%20coming%20civil%20war&f=false 2. ^{{cite web|url = http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1932.html|title = The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1932|accessdate = 2012-01-08|publisher = The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120325202903/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1932.html|archivedate = 2012-03-25|df =}} 3. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakkqyRBHRI Whistling Wolf from "Droopy Dog (1953) The Three Little Pups" YouTube] 4. ^Cech, John (editor). Dictionary of Literary Biographies: American Writers for Children, 1900-1960, Gale Research, 1983, volume 22, pp. 294-299; 5. ^https://www.discogs.com/The-Red-Clay-Ramblers-Stolen-Love/release/3021636 4 : Songs of the American Civil War|African Americans in the Civil War|Songs written by Henry Clay Work|1862 songs |
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