Great theme song - I think we should all make an effort to learn it for the next camp fire we attend. This slice of Americana was the inspiration behind the movie The Patriot with Mel Gibson before he got at the script and amended it. The character Francis Marion was of course the inspiration behind this series. According to the wiki it was banned in Canada due to its portrayal of Loyalists and British soldiers.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Thanks for posting this. I'll be humming it all day. :-)
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