June 15, 2007

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Nothing like a classic American tune to rouse that patriotic spirit you all have. Liberal or conservative or in between. You love this song . Admit it.

Posted by: Good Lt. at 11:40 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Like ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDER it must offend liberals who want to replace THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER with some stupid song like AGE OF AQUARIUS

Posted by: sandpiper at June 16, 2007 10:22 AM (mY5+n)

2 Not impressed.  They skipped the 3rd, 4th, and 6th stanzas and censored the 5th.  Also not the best musical rendtion I've heard.
 

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)


 


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)


 


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)


 


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)


 


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)


 


 


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.


 


Posted by: Michael Stora, Ph.D. at June 16, 2007 12:06 PM (+/LLd)

3 They did the same thing in my version with the 5th stanza... ('die' scratched for 'live')

Its just the Wilhousky arrangement, for chrissakes...

;-)

Posted by: Good Lt at June 16, 2007 02:38 PM (yMbfY)

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