"face the music" from "face the music of war"

[GSCole]

Relative to recent list discussions about slang, from MOA -- Michigan, a
notation that "faces the music" is a slang phrase, in:

A commentary about The Works of William Shakespeare...., 1861-71,
p.XXXVII.

"The bully rock is the man who does not give ground, who, in our slang
phrase 'faces the music'."

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;xc=1;sid=afd3938a6ca512ee403a680992ca3e9d;q1=faces%20the%20music;idno=ABA6862.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000041

George Cole
Shippensburg University