https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1343673193110904837

I didn’t see a dig on Dan’s tweet the other day, so here’s what I have WRT the music:

Most know it from Aaron Copland’s music (or ELPs “Hoedown) for rock fans), where he placed the tune in the “Hoe-Down” section of the ballet Rodeo. It’s actually not his creation but a march known as “Bonaparte’s retreat”. The music dates back to the 1800s and was a well-known folk tune played by fiddlers.

I first heard it called this on an album called “the Civil War Collection” by Jim Taylor and have associated it with that time.

I wonder if Dan is either pointing to a retreat by the DS or perhaps at the Civil War period which is linked to the song.

Or, it’s just a song. Curious choice though from my perspective.

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Bonaparte%27s_Retreat_(1)

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2013/11/bill-stepp-aaron-copland-and-bonapartes-retreat/