Posted on 03/25/2009 6:54:39 AM PDT by laotzu
may i also point out that the same is NOT true of the comments about the DAMNyankee HELLHOLES like Point Lookout, Elmira, Camp Douglas & other DY DEATH CAMPS.
sorry, but as usual, you are WRONG.
free dixie,sw
Yeah right. I've missed you. It's been far too sane around here in your absence.
We used to sing that song in music class at school when I was growing up. But I don’t recall the teacher explaining who the “despot” was.
Eh, some tall republican guy with a beard. Who cares.
Actually, I know of at least one business that went under, because of an association with Elmira.
And many of those Baltimoreans (Black and White) objected to today actually have Southern or Border State roots.
They certainly aren't thin-lipped and thin-blooded Yankees.
It's a strange song.
Biden must like this part:
And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,
Maryland! My Maryland!
And there's something Obama would like:
Come! 'tis the red dawn of the day,
Maryland, My Maryland!
A blasphemous part for people who object to that sort of thing in Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic":
Better the fire upon thee roll,
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!
And even a nice bit of porn:
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
lol....northern scum...i’m gonna pass on this one admittedly
Ya think? Do you have any facts to back that up?
There are North Vietnamese, North Koreans, and damnYankees. They all come down South to where the decent folks live and cause problems.
I KNEW it!
I KNEW somebody, some day would actually *read* the lyrics.
Sure, go ahead and take it out *now*.
It will be embedded in some of us forever.
[wait’ll the dumb asses look up the history of the state flag]
Oh yeah, taking out “northern scum” is *really* gonna change the intent of the song.
Why don’t they just replace it with “Shiny, Happy People”, the buncha Botards.
Or murdered Baltimore civilians in the streets.
Fort Frederick was a Federal garrison for W.MD, just in case my poor, dirt-farming hillbilly ancestors “got ideas”.
My immediate area is littered with “minor skirmish” sites that don’t really make the big time history books, except for J.E.B. Stuart’s ride up Cove Road [where I grew up...good “ghost story”, there] on his way to McCoy’s Ferry.
Local pastures are rumored to be full of undiscovered shot and other artifacts.
The family *never* got over the “occupation” and voted solid Dem -solely- because of Lincoln until Reagan.
With 2 exceptions, the entire extant family switched to Republicans for that election.
Uh...you haven’t been to WV lately, have you?
There are more rebel flags flying there right now than probably flew over Richmond in the 1860s.
These ain’t yer grandaddy’s West Virginians.
They’ve gone back to their roots.
*Why* do you think they keep electing a KKK member as senator and naming every object in the state after him?
[this is excepting the big cities which are full of liberals and welfare rats]
You forgot western MD.
Avoid the Charlestown, Charleston and Martinsburg areas like the plague and you’re good to go.
Thank you for the succinct, accurate summary.
Wasn’t the poem penned by a Democrat?
How I wish I’d been there.
The secession congress voted overwhelmingly for leaving the Union.
OK, I'll take the bait. So, what do we need to know about the history of the state flag?
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