TITLE: Singing on the March

AUTHOR/COMPILER:

BRANCH OF SERVICE:

UNIT/AGENCY: Mexican Border Patrol

NATIONALITY:

DATE: after1969

PLACE:

SOURCE: Manuscript from the Library of Congress

NOTE: Includes a paper entitled "Songs and Ballads Authored by Guardsmen and Regulars on Active Duty on the Mexican Border 1916-1917" written by National Historian of Mexican Veterans, Moses N. Thisted.

73 song texts (Smc)

LOCATION: LMF files

CONTENTS:

When He Died on the Mexican Border

On the Way to the Border

A Rookie's Letter Home

The Daily Drill of the Rookies; or the Captain's Lament

What a Rookie thought of Border Duty

Impressions of a Few Days on the Mexican Border

The Woman and the Rookie

Did You Ever Do the Things We Do Upon the Border?

Target Practice

The Wild Turnip Eaters

Camp Rumors

The Sunny Side of Soldier Life

Our Soldier Chaplains

Dedicated to the Men of the National Guard

Bugs

Song of the Human Toothpick – " God's Unfurnished Land"

I've Got to Go to Mexico

Pancho Villa

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Fust Yo' Take Yo' Rifle

Oh, the Dirty Little Adjutant

The Cal-vreeman Rides a Big Black Horse

Mexican Border Medley

Company "A"

On Wisconsin

Das Tea Party

My Three Years on the Mexican Border 1914 - 1917

The Fighting Infantry

The 13^th U.S. Calvary in Old Chihuahua

South Dakota Heads For Texas

Oh, the Cavalry, the Cavalry

The Twenty-third Infantry from Brooklyn

The Pancho Villa Song

Detail

Casey Jones on the Border

Down on the Rio Grande

Hello, Hello, Squadron "A"

Fighting for the U.S.A.

On the Texas Border Line

I've Done My Bit on the Border

The Guardsman's Toast

Dreaming Dreams and Seeing Visions

Passing the Buck

But the Country's Safe

A Long Way From Home

Recall Tale about Capt. Emil Martin Who Sought Some Recruits

Major Jim Schuyler's Delight

At Target Practice

Tase's Dream

Farewell, Jim

Our Pet

Four or Five Days From Broadway

Take Us Back to New York Town

True Blue

All Go North on the 1:45

Hell on the Rio Grande

Soon

Christmas Comes to the Border

I've Done My Bit in the Guard House

Gray's "Elegy" Done into Llano Grandean

Dreaming of Home

A Leave of Absence

Suppose

Too Proud to Loaf

The Other Man

The Raver

A Boarder Christmas Carol

On the Road to Mexico

The National guards on the Job

The Second Washington

In Texas, Down By the Rio Grande

The Midnight Patrol

The Sentry

You Are Doing Your Bit on the Border

The Raw Cavalry Recruit

Captain Harry H. Spencer of Troop "K" , 1^st N.Y. Cavalry

NOTES UPDATED: 11 April 2025