Discussion for article #247583
So, Maryland still has a state song that urges armed rebellion against the federal government. Got it.
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Gee, it only took you 151 years. Way to go, guys! You want a fucking medal, too?
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Hate to break bad news but most Southerners consider Maryland “northern scum”. Maryland is technically a Southern State but not so to the Georgian or Alabaman.
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“By enshrining a Confederate war anthem, the General Assembly may have been seeking symbolically to challenge such efforts". Symbolically. Right.
“Better the fire upon thee roll, Better the blade, the shot, the bowl, Than crucifixion of the soul, Maryland! My Maryland!” Fine, then. You want it, you got it.
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Honestly, who gives a shit about a State anthem. We have a confusing choice in Michigan. The unofficial anthem is sung to the same ridiculous tune as Maryland, and its called coincidentally “Michigan, My Michigan”, with words changed at the turn of the last century for some inexplicable reason. But our actual official anthem is even more ridiculous, in that no one sings it because there is still a royalty that must be paid to the songwriters who penned the official song “My Michigan” in 1937. That song’s copyright doesn’t expire until 70 years past the songwriters’ death. Since the State didn’t buy the copyright from the authors because the songwriters wouldn’t sell it to the State, the legislature still made it our so-called anthem. So nobody sings it, because if we did, apparently we’d have to pay them still to this day.
More people know a State college or university song better than a State anthem anyway. It generally seems to fill in the void.
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"
She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!"
That would probably get bleeped by the radio if it was in a rap song. There’s more than one reason to reconsider these lyrics, in my opinion.
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I am, and will forever be,
in my heart proud, so proud,
to be Northern Scum.
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There is a bus load of little kids somewhere in Maryland who have had the one bright spot in their miserable “perpetual school photo day” lives, by being ASKED by grownups to chortle “Northern Scum”…taken away.
I hope you guys are happy.
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“Maryland, Oh Maryland,” which is sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum…"
The funniest line in the article. Is this lifted from the Onion?
True, and the state was very divided during the Civil War.
I have lived in Maryland for 34 years and have never heard the song sung anywhere–including my kids’ schools. Had no idea what the lyrics are and didn’t care. That said, this is an innocuous step in the right direction. And by the way Maryland is far more liberal than most of its northern neighbors.
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Nowadays we usually only sing one verse of the National Anthem. When I was a kid we used to sing the first, second and fourth verse. The third verse was unfit for public consumption. Key did not like anti-war people but “Their blood has wiped out their foul footsteps pollution.”
That’s funny. I was about to ask you, “What? Isn’t ‘The Victors’ the official Michigan state song?!?!” I was born and raised in Michigan and that’s the only Michigan song I know!
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Tannenbaum is the fir tree, not the gangster. But it IS funny.
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Composed near New Roads, LA, my old hometown. A beautiful oak tree honors the composer.
Like I wrote above, our unofficial anthem in Michigan is sung to the same dumbass tune too. Not a very creative bunch these anthem writers. Personally, I think its time we give Stevie Wonder or Aretha the task in Michigan to come up with a new State anthem here. At least we’ll get a tune also worthy of the words they would write.
At least Georgia got it right…
Sing it Ray…Let it rip.
“Georgia on My Mind” is a song by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, closely associated with the cover version by Ray Charles, a native of Georgia, who recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road. It became the official state song of the State of Georgia in 1979.
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In MD for 16 years (proud Northern Scum). I will never own property farther south if I can help it. As for MD state song:: the tune is awful (melancholic), the lyrics are awful (morbid). We have our fair share of conservatives in the state which means we have to keep something as horrible as this song because 'it’s our history." Oh well at least the state sport is jousting,.
Did Alabama adopt the eponymous “Sweet Home…”
northern scum is a great band name
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