Posted on 03/17/2016 2:17:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Maryland lawmakers took a step Thursday toward scrubbing references to “Northern scum” and other Civil War-era phrases from the official state song.
The Maryland Senate voted 37-8 for the changes, while also recognizing “Maryland, My Maryland” as the state’s historic song. Supporters of the measure, which now goes to the House, said it was a compromise that removes offensive language and recognizes history. …
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Thank goodness! “Scum” denotes a congealed substance whereas America’s slime is fully homogenized.
Wow! There are some interpretations to that stanza which would get me banned if I were to express them in this polite forum.
I am so glad the legislators in my former home state have such important matters to address / s
(Han Solo voice) Northern scum? Northern scum? I like the sound of that.
What? Maryland was singing about scum all this time and we didn’t even notice?
Shows how much attention was being paid to things ceremonial.
Besides it looks like most of Maryland has been bent on turning into what it once hated anyhow.
I lived for several weeks in a relatively redneck area of Maryland (Hagerstown, that the liberals there call Haterstown). It wasn’t bad. Biggest Walmart in the east, too, with tractor pulls. I worked in rich Germantown, about an hour away, but could only afford to live in Hagerstown. Eventually moved to Nashville and then points further west.
Well we have enough context in that it’s SHE’LL come. Not HE.
Damn fools!
New England must have come out of it’s safe space long enough to report a trigger warning about the microagression.
There's shopping malls and city halls, and cats and dogs and ponds with frogs;
But none of us has ever meant to overthrow the government.
From Baltimore to Hagerstown, just take your car and drive around.
We're near the nation's capital, but we are not stuck up at all,
So take a stand and shake the hand of every crab in Maryland.
We touch four states and several bays, the highways mostly run both ways,
We hope you come and say hello and maybe stop and spend some dough.
When I was ten my family moved here from West Virginia;
I went to school in Annapolis, I studied Greek and calculus,
And now I live in Baltimore and that's what Maryland is for.
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland.
I have a dog whose name is Jack, I threw a stick, he brought it back.
My sister had a cat, I think, my mother had a kitchen sink.
My father was a decent man, and we all lived in Maryland.
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland.
Our nights are dark, our days are fair, we're right next door to Delaware.
Our song before was full of gore but we heard the Union won the war.
We're sorry if we made you mad, it was the only song we had.
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland.
Hate to be the one who sexually educates you, but the female gender can come too. It doesn’t happen nearly as often but, yes, I’ve been the cause of that before.
That sounds like a kiloaggression at least. Nobody can claim they didn’t notice.
If I’d written it, I would have talked about Northern “bums” but again with our modern naughty ears, who knows what that might have sounded like.
TMI
Well as they say, she’s a crock pot, he’s a microwave oven. Patience is the key.
They replaced it with “CIS white male scum”.
They should scrap it and write an entirely new state song.
“Who’ll Tax The Rain?”
But still, does EVERYTHING need to mean sex today. That says more about our minds than it does about the more chaste individuals who wrote the song.
We’ll rack our brains!
If we could even find them
We wouldn’t be insane!
Who’ll tax the rain?
That’s pretty good. I like my state songs to be non-threatening and inclusive.
If you want a state that doesn’t suck, come to Maryland. Lotsa luck
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