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LYRICS: (you can change the God part to whatever you'd like imo)
it's The most important song of the Union troops during the American civil War
Lyrics :
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
An Alternative is:
Lyrics:
When Johnny comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Oh, the men will cheer the boys will shout
The ladies they will all turn out,
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
Get ready for the Jubilee,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give the hero three times three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Well, the laurel wreath is ready now
To place upon his loyal brow,
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
In eighteen hundred and sixty-one
Hurrah! Hurrah!
That was when the war begun,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
In eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
Both sides were falling to,
And we'll all drink stone wine,
When Johnny comes marching home.
And we'll all drink stone wine,
When Johnny comes marching home.
In eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Old Abe, he ended slavery
Hurrah! Hurrah!
In eighteen hundred and sixty-three
Old Abe, he ended slavery
And we'll all drink stone wine,
When Johnny comes marching home.
And we'll all drink stone wine,
When Johnny comes marching home.
In eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Abe called for five hundred thousand more,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
In eighteen hundred and sixty-five,
They talked rebellion--strife;
And we'll all drink stone wine
When Johnny comes marching home.
And we'll all drink stone wine
When Johnny comes marching hom
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)but who knew the history, ah the things we learn cuz of DU.
==
Although written several years before the American Revolution, Yankee Doodle Dandy was universally popular among both the rebels and British soldiers during the War.
In America the song surfaced during the French and Indian War when the colonials joined forces with General Braddock at Niagara. The colonials were a motley crew, wearing furs and buckskins. British surgeon Richard Schuckburg during that war reportedly substituted new words for the old Cromwell song, changing Nankee to Yankee, making fun of the Americans fighting alongside the British troops. Legend has it that the song first appeared as a nursery rhyme ridiculing Englands Oliver Cromwell as Nankee Doodle.
In the song: Doodle refers to a sorry trifling fellow. A fool or simpleton. Dandy, on the other hand, refers to a gentleman of affected manners, dress and hairstyle. Macaroni was not a reference to the pasta but to a fancy style of Italian dress imitated in England at the time.
The song expressed the perception of the British that a colonial could stick a feather in his coonskin cap and think he was as fashionable as any European. Thus the song was a parody proclaiming the colonials as country bumpkins.
Though the song held them up to ridicule, the colonials adopted the song as their own.
Countless versions evolved, as many as 190 verses in all. In a display of irony
. when the British surrendered their forces at Yorktown to end the War, their band played The World Turned Upside Down. The Americans played Yankee Doodle.
The colonials may have been an army of ragtag farmers under-equipped, under-clothed and rarely paid. But they defeated the largest, most powerful army in Europe to gain their freedom.
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)I'm not just whistling Dixie lately. Just slips it in to his rants. Coincidence?
yuiyoshida
(41,862 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)Looks a little politically incorrect .. whoaaa!
yuiyoshida
(41,862 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)rpannier
(24,339 posts)Watched it in rerun in the 70's when I was a kid
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)Here are the Weavers:
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Journeyman
(15,041 posts)I do not understand why neo-Confederates insist on using a song the North lawfully claimed as a prize of war. Even less, I cannot believe the North permits them to so sully our song.
On 10 April 1865, one day after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln addressed a White House crowd:
http://democraticthinker.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/abraham-lincoln-i-wish-i-was-in-dixie/
Make them accept that the song no longer belongs to them, get them to concede it is our lawful prize, claimed in victory, then insist they use it as it should be used: as a paen to Union and a rebuttal to rebellion.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)I amz cornfused. Will have to read further. Thought this was the number one Confederate tune.
Uncle Joe
(58,425 posts)were from Ohio.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic adopted by the Union as their anthem was written by Julia Ward Howe of New York/Boston.
American Trilogy which I posted on this forum was written by Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley in the 70's he combined Dixie with the Battle Hymn of the Republic and a 3rd song; a Bahamian Lullaby closely related to African American Spirituals.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)music, PBS had a segment, maybe from a documentary, about how Ed Sullivan didn't want to let him sing a gospel song but he relented.
Uncle Joe
(58,425 posts)more than his manager; Colonel Tom Parker putting him in bullshit low budget, comedy movies in the 60s instead of more dramatic roles which Elvis preferred.
niyad
(113,581 posts)Colonel Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker (June 26, 1909 January 21, 1997) born Andreas Cornelis ("Dries" van Kuijk, was a dutch-born con man, gambler and thief.
one of the reasons elvis did not make international tours was because "parker" was an illegal alien, a military deserter--complete, dishonest scum.
Uncle Joe
(58,425 posts)Elvis' income as a management fee, something like 50% vs the norm of 10-15%.
niyad
(113,581 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)... and as Mr Lincoln says, was "appropriated" by the Confederacy. It was frequently played by the U.S. forces at the beginning of the war.
Daniel Decatur Emmett, who is credited with writing the song (the origin is in dispute), said that if he had known the use it would be put to, he'd never have written it.
"Bonnie Blue Flag" is a better candidate for "Confederate" song. It refers to the first flag of the Confederacy, and was written in 1861 specifically for the Confederacy.
-- Mal
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)Where is it from? Must be on the side of a building? 'cuse my ignorance if it's well known.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The movie "Glory" is based on the same event. The mural is of first black regiment (the 54th) marching out of Boston to fight in the Civil War.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)First of all I need to see that movie, second of all I have another sight to see when I visit Washington DC.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)There is also a Harvard memorial to the Civil War:
Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building honoring the sacrifices made by Harvard men in defense of the Union during the American Civil War"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Hall_%28Harvard_University%29
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They forbore to break the chain
Which bound the dusky tribe,
Checked by the owners' fierce disdain,
Lured by 'Union' as the bribe.
Destiny sat by, and said,
'Pang for pang your seed shall pay,
Hide in false peace your coward head,
I bring round the harvest-day.'
Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Voluntaries" dedicated to the 54th Regiment.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)This one is not from the Civil War; it predates it. And it is not by an American poet, but it echoes the sentiment and I love it also.
Never Surrender
Do not surrender even when defeated,
and do not be a slave even in bondage,
trembling with fear advance bravely,
and attack with fury, though badly wounded.
Be as stubborn as a rusting nail,
that refuses to yield though old and ruined,
and do not envy the peacock's plumage,
that drops in fear at the first noise.
Be as a god that never cries,
or as a devil that never prays,
or as the oak whose mighty canopy,
needs of water but does not beg it.
Even when it rolls to the dust,
let your head scowl and bite,
and scream for vengeance.
- Pedro Palacios Almafuerte
Argentinian poet 1854-1917
freshwest
(53,661 posts)That was normal then. I don't recognize what it's become. My mind keeps on going back to those days, or the sixties and seventies. I can't put my head around how much it's changed.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)by the 60s we had to sing America the Beautiful and Star Spangled Banner only now and then due to the high notes. Lately I've been more interested in Americana due to discovering an ancestor who was involved in the Civil War. Looking through his eyes those songs must have been super inspiring, it was an obligation by the 60s and by Junior High School I was refusing to salute the flag due to the war. Context is everything.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)learned some of the basic about evolution at the same time. We had prayer, then it was taken out without any whining at all, had holidays, both Christian and pagan and it was a good time. Then the sixties came and the larger world came into our and we learned a lot more about things. We were taught the Confederacy was wrong, but it was still celebrated in the state but not at school. In middle and high school were were taught about the labor movement, abolition, the right to vote for minorities and for women, all wars and presidents and state and world capitals and a lot of geography. A lot of music and art classes. No good reason for the public schools to have regressed, but I know why/how it happened in the years after I graduated.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm betting that kind of dates me. Most people will remember it as "cartoon music." The Looney Tunes characters often ran around to a speeded up version of this song.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)PAO Confirm shutdown. Columbia, the gem of the ocean, now in space, not yet in orbit. Standing by now for external tank separation.
CAPCOM Roger, Columbia, MECO. Confirm shutdown, Columbia, the gem of this new ocean now in space not yet in orbit. Standing by now for external tank separation. Roger, we confirm the sep, Columbia. Nine minutes 3 seconds, confirm external tank separation. Columbia now performing an evasive maneuver moving below and beyond the translative and north of the external tank. Young should see it moving away out of his window. Nine minutes and 40 seconds go-no-go status check emission control for the first OMS burn. Give it a Go. Columbia, Houston, you are go for nominal/ OMS 1 and for APU shut down on time.
http://www.johnwyoung.org/sts1/hailcolumbia.htm
MADem
(135,425 posts)Scraps still come back, especially the whole piece at the end of each stanza with the varying praises for THE RED, WHITE and BLUE!
I impress young children watching cartoons when they realize I know the tune and can sing to it...! It's like they think I wrote the cartoon, or something!
One of the things that made old cartoons useful is that they provided an opportunity for children to be exposed to traditional, folk and classical music. With the exception of Family Guy's send-ups of show tunes, I don't see a lot of exceptional music in cartoons--I wish they'd get back to that--after all, there's a ton of GOOD music that is royalty-free!
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)probably from cartoons, but need to check out the origins. Colombia was a ship? Thought it was pre statue of Liberty female symbol for the US.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Personified Columbia in American flag gown and Phrygian cap, which signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty, from a World War I patriotic poster.
....Massachusetts Chief Justice Samuel Sewall used the name Columbina (not Columbia) for the New World in 1697.[2] The name Columbia for "America" first appeared in 1738[3][4] in the weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in Edward Cave's The Gentleman's Magazine. Publication of Parliamentary debates was technically illegal, so the debates were issued under the thin disguise of Reports of the Debates of the Senate of Lilliput, and fictitious names were used for most individuals and placenames found in the record. Most of these were transparent anagrams or similar distortions of the real names; some few were taken directly from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels; and a few others were classical or neoclassical in style. Such were Ierne for Ireland, Iberia for Spain, Noveborac for New York (from Eboracum, the Roman name for York), and Columbia for Americaat the time used in the sense of "European colonies in the New World".[5]
The name was perhaps first coined by Samuel Johnson, thought to have been the author of an introductory essay (in which "Columbia" already appears) which explained the conceit of substituting "Lilliputian" for English names; Johnson also wrote down the Debates from 1740 to 1743. The name continued to appear in The Gentleman's Magazine until December 1746. Columbia is an obvious calque on America, substituting the base of the surname of the discoverer Christopher Columbus for the base of the given name of the somewhat less well-known Americus Vespucius.
As the debates of Parliament, many of whose decisions directly affected the colonies, were distributed and closely followed in the British colonies in America, the name "Columbia" would have been familiar to the United States' founding generation.
In the second half of the 18th century, the American colonists were beginning to acquire a sense of having an identity distinct from that of their British cousins on the other side of the ocean. At that time, it was common for European countries to use a Latin name in formal or poetical contexts to confer an additional degree of respectability on the country concerned.[6] In many cases, these nations were personified as pseudo-classical goddesses named with these Latin names. Located on a continent unknown to and unnamed by the Romans, "Columbia" was the closest that the Americans could come to emulating this custom.
By the time of the Revolution, the name Columbia had lost the comic overtone of its "Lilliputian" origins and had become established as an alternative, or poetic name for America. While the name America is necessarily scanned with four syllables, according to 18th-century rules of English versification Columbia was normally scanned with three, which is often more metrically convenient.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)or it really would be a mess with Columbia/Colombia! Fascinating to learn the history, so 'merica is the three syllable usage of America, by certain citizens, hmm.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Which makes sense, seeing as he got credit in Europe for the discovery:
Columbia is a New Latin toponym, in use since the 1730s for the Thirteen Colonies. It originated from the name of Christopher Columbus and from the ending -ia, common in Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia etc.).
And Colombia got their name from the same guy!
Etymology
The name "Colombia" is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish: Cristóbal Colón). It was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those under the Spanish and Portuguese rule. The name was later adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819, formed out of the territories of the old Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, and northwest Brazil).[21]
When Venezuela and Ecuador parted ways, the Cundinamarca region that remained became a new country the Republic of New Granada. In 1858 New Granada officially changed its name to the Granadine Confederation, then in 1863 the United States of Colombia, before finally adopting its present name the Republic of Colombia in 1886.[21]
To refer to this country, the Colombian government uses the terms Colombia and República de Colombia.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)or hombre I should say. Am going to pm you on this subject shortly.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)I always consider Julia Ward Howe's verion bowlderized, although Pete uses it at the end of the song.
-- Mal
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)and remember this song.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Many of the popular songs of the war were used by both sides.
-- Mal
niyad
(113,581 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)"Life Every Voice And Sing"
Lift every voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list'ning skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past, 'til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by thy might,
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee,
Shadowed beneath the hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.