Notes: Included in "Consolidation Song" by CA White recorded by Bobby Horton vol 4.
?The Captain With His Whiskers? (written in the 1830's by Thomas Haynes Bayley, takes a pre-Civil War look at soldiers as romantic, dashing figures and the young lady that finds them so. Thus, it has a bit of a ?Gone With The Wind? feel that I enjoy. Besides I love singing phrases like ?super-abundant delight? and ?considerable zest?.
Thomas Haynes Bayley wrote the original song, probably in the 1830's. When Anne & Frank Warner collected this version from Lena B. Fish in NH in 1940, she told them, "...no man of this day and age could ever hope to find a girl to dance or keep company with him if his face was covered with whiskers. But in the good old days, whiskers wee deemed to be an emblem of strngth and manhood...".
?The Captain With His Whiskers? gives us one last pre-Civil War look at soldiers as romantic, dashing figures and the coquette that finds them so. It has a bit of a ?Gone With The Wind? feel to me. Besides I love having the opportunity to sing phrases like ?super-abundant delight? and ?considerable zest?.
