What's the best song of the 1780's

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Which ones do you get down to?

  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Hey Nonny Ho
  • The Roast Beef of Old England
  • Epistel To The Troops In Boston
  • Hang the Welshman
  • The Gypsy Laddie
  • Barbara Allen
  • The Gallows Tree
  • Other (posted below)

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I can’t think of too many, list any others you like below

2

This is the BEST freaking poll…EVER!
They’re all so good, it’s hard to choose just one! (I celebrate the guy’s entire GD catalogue!)
BFM is a poll-making GENIUS!!!

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[quote=“the chief”]Once a-fuckin-gain, the OP’s personal bias negates the value of the poll.
Barbara Allen?
The Gallows Tree?
Hello?
There’s more to life than the Top 40, dude, sheesh…[/quote]I didn’t want to be too obscure. But I added those 2 for you.

4

Mozart’s piano concerto No. 24

5

Well “Yankee Doodle Dandy” has a complex composition history, which extends much earlier, but the versions with George Washington in them would have to be close to this time period.

[quote]The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
I wanted dreadfully to get
To give to my Jemima.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up, etc.[/quote]

They just don’t write 'em like that anymore…