text: Just Before the Battle , Mother , one of the most popular songs of the Civil War , sold over a million copies in sheet music , an interesting thing to contemplate ( or call for at a karaoke bar ) as we await the debut of Talk magazine ( as I understand it , an abbreviated form of the original title , Talk Is Cheap ) and the resumption of Tina Brown-mocking .
  
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  There were no songs released during the Civil War .