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When the Yanks Go Marching In

by Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie · from That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folk Song Movement

1996Singer/Songwriter2:46Track 18

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Review by DeShawn Price★★★★Sample

Front half: perfect. Back half: also perfect. I'm annoyed.

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★★Sample

the sequencing here is criminally underrated. “When the Yanks Go Marching In” into the next one?? come on.

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Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
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The Ballad of October 16
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Citizen C.I.O.
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The Sinking of the Reuben James
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So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (War Version)
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The Martins and the Coys
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Hitler Song
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Sally Don't You Grieve
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Jimmy Longhi Story
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When the Yanks Go Marching In
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Miss Pavlichenko
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Now That It's All Over (He'll Go Back to Selling Shoes)
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