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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>I don’t know the origin of the song. it can’t be “a Confederate Song.” The Confederate forces may have adopted it and used it, but it wasn’t written for them because it was copyrighted in 1858, when the Confederacy didn’t yet exist,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>The copyright notice is the one required in that era:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> “Entered according to act of Congress 1858 by Firth, Pond & Co.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>This means that Firth, Pond & Co, the publisher, copyrighted this piece in 1858.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Jim O’Briant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Tuba / Leader<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> Al Levy <alevy@alevy.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 17, 2020 7:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jim O'Briant <jobriant@garlic.com>; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sheet music sources<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>See The Attached. Enlighten me. A Confederate Song?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 4/17/2020 7:20 PM, Jim O'Briant wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>There has been a copyright law on the books in the USA since 1790.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Jim O'Briant<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tuba / Leader<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>