THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2023
- The Bonnie Blue Flag
The flag itself - a single white 5-point star on a dark blue field - first appeared in 1810 as the banner of the 'Republic of West Florida', but was quickly ushered off history's stage by the Louisiana Purchase after hardly 3 months. Some years after, another version reappeared, representing the 'Republic of Texas', in late 1836.
The 'Bonnie Blue Flag' cheered in the song, was written by Harry Macarthy, a comedian and song-and-dance performer who emigrated from Ireland in 1849. Calling himself the 'Arkansas Comedian', he and his wife Lottie toured throughout the south in the years before the war, giving what they called 'personation' shows.
Macarthy borrowed the melody of a catchy Irish folk tune called "The Irish Jaunting Car" (popular in the mid-1850's Victorian British Isles), and wrote lyrics that turned it into an early-war, patriotic narrative song that tells the story of the state-by-state formation of the Confederate States of America in order of their secession. Published in no fewer than six editions from 1861 to 1864, the song soon became hugely popular with both southern soldiers and civilians, and was even banned by the Union commander in New Orleans, the publisher's home town. In early 1861, Macarthy and his wife, who had been performing in New Orleans, debuted the song in a concert at Jackson, Mississippi, using it as the finale to their act. They went on to sing it for Jefferson Davis's inauguration as President of the young Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama, in February of '61. 
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After this weeks events we should all proudly raise our Bonnie blue flags in support of Texas gallantly taking the stand.
Your music is truly a light in the darkness. Thank you, gents 🍻
Agreed
Do you vote for democrats?
@@user-tu1yv8ib3d sounds like a reply on the wrong post holmes
@@b.r.holmes6365 Democrats created Confederacy.
❤ FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY ❤️
God's and Generals was a great movie, one of my very favorites.
Respect from Poland, thank you for upload
I hope that the Polish government will finally recognize the Upper Silesian minority as a separate nation 💛💙
@@Matthias_SZL Silesia belongs to Czech republic hahahahahah
Looks like we need a new version for the latest... starting with Texas
Yes definitely
One of the best songs you guys sing, love it.
I am 14 and have been listening to the second South Carolina Strings Band since I was 9 or 10 love these songs and never fells to lift my spirits God Bless America y’all
That ought to be 'God bless Dixie'. Thank me later.
Thanks a lot, Jack Raney !
damn what going on in texas makes this song have special meaning
Greetings from Europe. Thanks for reposting the video of this song. You never cease to make me happy.
Fantastic! Thank you for keeping this history alive!
Rebel music is better than Yankee music.
Yep. It is. Good call...
I’m British, so I have no side per se, but yeah, it absolutely is better music. Union Dixie, for example, is cringeworthy.
As a born and bred New Yorker, objectively, yes, the south definitely has better music!
Love your music and I’m 16 and been loving civil war songs since when I was 15 keep up the good work boys.
check out song for the irish brigade by David Kincaid
@@pintoffanta2510 Amen to that !
@@pintoffanta2510 Good Song. I favorite civil war songs are Battle Hymn of the Republic, Marching Through Georgia, Jackson in the Valley, Stonewall Jacksons Way, Bonnie Blue Flag, When Johnny comes marching home and Rally round the flag
2011, 2021, 2031
and for the next 10.000 years.
Hooray for the
Bonnie Blue Flag!!!
God bless America!
❤️❤️❤️💕🇮🇹🌈🇺🇲💕❤️❤️❤️
Oh my, this guys makes me feel proud oh being a southerner, and i'm not even from the south nor from america. Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
HAHAHAHAHA...
Good to see people can still have fun like this in these dark times
Hurrah for Bonnie Blue!
Real music, greetings from Italy, you're the real american spirit
The West is a sleeping giant
Hurrah to the Confederates
Our history is not over, honor to you boys
Viva Italia! Respects from California!
Love it. Southern blood will never die
Wonderful rendition of a great song, even as a pro-union guy.
AMEN, Brethren! THANKS and our beautiful homeland grows more precious every day. The best to ALL Yall from across the not so northern border! Right above the highest waterfall east of the missisip!
Another amazing video by you fine folks my family where Irish confederate died for they saw was right God bless you all and deo vindice
Gents, only one word to describe this, FABULOUS!! Regards from the UK, Bob
Keep the anthems alive!!! Love from Scotland 🏴
Always a good day when I see you gents posting. I may be a redcoat, but I love listening to your songs of coats grey and blue and you've all really gotten me into US Civil War music and history. You've inspired me to branch out from guitar and learn banjo. My great-grandad played all the classics and dreamed of visiting the states. I hope that with his banjo in hand I'll play in the states one day! I hope to see you all some day as well.
Thank you all for everything you do, lots of love from Northumberland on the English-Scottish border.
We'd love to have ya. God bless from Kentucky.
I know we love the confederacy, but I live in west panhandle Florida and the Bonnie Blue was our sovereign flag for damn near a year in 1810. Before the war, before Texas, there was the Republic of West Florida and we will NEVER FORGET 🏴
Hurrah, from Georgia! Deo Vindice!
Loved seeing you guys in Gods and Generals!
God bless Dixie.
I remember being at this show at Gettysburg back in 2018! What a great event it was! Y'all sounded amazing and I remember requesting Stonewall Jackson's Way during one of your performances with the spectators and having some banter about being a banjo player myself!
I'm a scouser and I can definitely hear an Irish influence here!
What I'd give to spend time in America listening to you guys 😍
❤️🇺🇸 From Western Kentucky 🇺🇸❤️
❤ DIXIE ❤
Yeeeeeehhhhhaaaaa!!!! long live sacred DIXIELAND!!!!!! HOORAAHH!! HOOORAHHH!!!
Спасибо, как раз под мой день рождения 19 мая! И моя любимая песня!
Добро пожаловать и с Днем Рождения Вас !!
The BEST REBEL YELLS I ever heard! Long live the South and the Confederacy!
It was a pro-slavery rebellion. What about the Confederacy are you excited for in the UK?
ESSE MÚSICA EMPOLGA A TODOS.
A BANDA É A MELHOR.
👍👊🤜🤛📺🇧🇷
olha" um br aqui, prazer em te vê-lo
I love that you described the background of this song, quite fascinating 😊
Wonderful performance, love your music ❤
Great performance! This song proves what the South was truly fighting for, their rights, not slavery.
The government definitely was fighting for slavery and the original lyrics of this song literally open with "fighting for our property" but yeah, not all confederate soldiers necessarily fought for slavery no.
@@pintoffanta2510 Source?
@@user-tu1yv8ib3d just google the lyrics to the song online. Those are the original lyrics and were very popular however soldiers did also sing this version
@@pintoffanta2510 Property are slaves?
@@user-tu1yv8ib3d what else do you think they mean?
Wonderful! God bless the South and greetings from Poland!
o, to jest nas więcej:) Choć nie popieram niewolnictwa żadną miarą, to jakoś sympatię żywię właśnie dla Południa.
@@antares85PL oni są podobni do nas, bo walczyli o swoją niepodległość w latach 1861-65. A my 1863/64.
Great music, great movie, great culture!
Don't you just love those country boys....
#StandWithTexas
Greetings from Germany!
Sorry to hear you guys are disbanded, hopefully you guys get back together one day
Now heres to brave Virginia that kept the south alive 🙏🏽
Hell yeah! Fellow Virginian
It’s a great anthem of the old south. I particularly liked our soldiers marching across the river on the far bank(in Horse Soldiers-John Wayne)singing it proud and bold. Thanks guys for the years of music and carrying on tradition.
"How many of you saw that little known movie called gods and generals? Most of them are here." Haha.
mid movie
josey wales better
Once again, thank you for another fine upload. Cheers from Athens, Greece!
Private Eric Robertson of the 15th Texas dismounted cavalry Company E. I enjoy you 2nd South Carolina boy’s music and I salute you.
Y'all gotta do the Union response to the Bonnie Blue Flag. Criminally underrated song. Haven't seen any performances of it either on RUclips.
No we don't. We absolutely don't. If you haven't seen it on YT.... Probably ought to tell you something. Just sayin'.
Hi from Scotland - you guys are amazing!! God Bless Dixie
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
Ain’t heard no yell for Virginia😭😂 wild
Herrlich. Danke!
BITTE !!!
We're getting the band back together boys!
indeed! Good to see a fellow Collin here hahaha. "Here's to our confederacy."
Great music greetings from mexico hurra for the bonnie blue flag.
God bless Dixie from Russia ❤
Greetings from Ireland.Fantastic music
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
@@AethelwulfBretwalda Both can be true at the same time. The Union made imitation versions of the song due to its popularity. Just as the Confederacy did with Battle Cry of Freedom.
You guys should make a live stream of your playing sessions, I could listen to this for hours
Same
I’m French, and i love all your songs, you’re really wonderful ! ❤
I love that the song includes what states joined when
Hi from Australia i am finding Americain's have some great lively tunes
Damn right !!! Welcome from 'down under' !
Keep the awesome music coming!
Sempre ouço esse pessoal da Carolina do Sul
Famosa Dixieland
E Soldier
Greetings from Finland! Great song!
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
Wonderful performance gentlemen.
nice work
This song is absolutely amazing, I love it beyond belief, it's my second favorite song behind Dixie. But now, of what's happening in this country, it has a whole different meaning.
Does it say something about SLAVERY?
@@AethelwulfBretwalda no? It has no mention of slavery
@@Pansexual_Pratt "Bonnie Blue Flag" refers to the first unofficial flag of the Confederancy. A blue flag with a single white star.
@@AethelwulfBretwalda ok? It is a song about the secession of the southern states, using the unofficial first flag. I don't see what you're talking about
I saw you guys play at the re-enactment of the battle of new market back in 2005. Great music.
Just more than a light in darkness ❤😊. I hope you guys go on..
Thanks very much ! As long as we have video to share...
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand thanks so much for sharing videos and your music, it's a real light in darkness, even I am far away on the other side of the ocean. Honestly I hope for your performance in Germany..
Much love from Little Dixie
Thank you for the great music! 🍻
I like the spirit and the enthusiasm of this.
Fabulous, as all ways!
Great music.
Awesome
Hurrah !! Respect from Warwickshire , England
🇸🇴 ❤️🔥
great stuff!
Wish you guys would do a version that included Missouri, star number 12! I once saw the words to it on Civil War Talk.🤔
God bless Missouri, from South Carolina!
my great great grand father was in th 14 sc
God bless him ! Mine was in Co. D, 7th Tenn Cav. CS. The other in Co. F, 26th Ill. God bless 'em all !!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand god bless them all!
My great great great grandfather was general Armistead
Incredible Job gents, y'all play perfect as always! Greetings from Holland gentleman!!
Kuthollander
@@gtworldzhd4137 Krijg tering belg vreet mn noten
***FREE BURMA UNITED WE STAND AGAINST MILITARY COUP***
**CSA**
***THANK YOU EVERYONE***
Audience doing a fine impression of the rebel yell.
I LOVE this type of music..thank you❤..from Indiana but my family is from Fauquier Co VA..Becca M..
NICE
Beatifull music greetings from a friend in Brazil! Hurrah for The Bonnie Blue Flag!
To think what they took away from us
Okay "Carlos Gutierrez"
Okay "Carlos Gutierrez"
Play it again Joe !😊😊😊
Glory to the South!
I may be a yankee but this shit fire
We have Irish Volunteer as Yankee version
Fantastic performance as always.
Thanks, Mao ! Good to hear from you again !!
You can't beat this song including Dixie. I had no idea several thousand Mexicans fought for the South. Mostly from Texas.
Such an amazing energy with all of the Candlelight Concerts! Can't wait for the next one!
Good old time!
Fantastic 🏴🇬🇧
HURRAH
We love it!
Greetings from Virginia the old dominion state!!!
im a northerner but wish i was a sc man and this makes me feel super southern
Come on down, the South has the soul of the USA, and we're always welcoming of any who wish to join us.
Amazing! Look forward to hearing you fellas soon
Thanks very much, but we're no longer 'touring'. RUclips is where to find us these days. Sorry to disappoint, but the only place you'll be able to see us 'in action' going forward, will be here on RUclips. The band DIS-banded at the end of 2019, due to aging-out mostly. Most of us started together in 1989, when we were already in our mid-40's. The 'annoyances' of aging, PC/Cancel Culture, and the restrictions of Covid combined in a sort of perfect storm that made it clear the time had come for us to 'drop the mic’ and leave the stage... That said, we truly appreciate your kind inquiry. Hopefully, you'll keep an eye out for us on our YT channel - ruclips.net/channel/UC6RHX6u-WDoS0EuMgIyfHrA. Be sure to subscribe, like, and click on the 'bell' to get notifications of new releases.
@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand that's sad to hear. I'd have loved to hear yall at a reenactment or somthin! But I'll definitely keep my eye out on here. I'm 28 and me, my pop, uncle and cousin all plan to get back into It all. Just want you all to know there's still some of us young fellas who appreciate this music and our heritage. And to hell with PC culture. Thank yall!
@@bigjess7406 That's the SPIRIT ! Thanks for your support and the kind words. Truly sorry to disappoint y'all !
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand AAAGH what a shame! I love this kind of living history, we need so so much more of it in the world. I wish more folks were able of critical analysis. It's a window into a life that's not very well understood in the 21st century. You've all done your part and for that the country owes all y'all a debt. I'm 22 but I grew up listening to y'all's music, and I still do listen to it. It's such a shame my peers have a 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' type attitude about much that makes them uncomfortable.
@@noahturner7123 Thanks for that, Noah ! With folks like yourself still listening, we'll be able to keep these songs 'evergreen'... God bless !
Greetings from New Orléans. Hurrah!
Yee Haw. Dixie Forever !!!
¡Maravilloso!
Saludos desde España🇪🇦
😊