It's Time: The Battle Hymn of the Republic

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[notaliberal]

During Mass this morning priest's homily was about religious freedom. We also prayed for religious freedom and the unborn and at the end of Mass "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was beautifully sung by a baritone.

[.45 Long Colt]

The only thing “gospel” about it is a false gospel.

Here is what the Apostle Paul says about anyone teaching a false gospel:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8-9)

Please read the historical and biblical analysis of the song I linked above.

[Fiji Hill]

Here’s one you’ll undoubtedly like:

THE GOOD OLD REBEL

Oh, I’m a good old rebel
Now thats just what I am
And for this yankee nation
I do no give a damn.

I’m glad I fought against her
I only wish we’d won
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done.

I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too.

I hates the glorious union
‘Tis dripping with our blood
I hates the striped banner
And fought it all I could.

I rode with Robert E. Lee
For three years there about
Got wounded in four places
And I starved at Point Lookout.

I caught the rheumatism
Campin’ in the snow
But I killed a chance of Yankees
And I’d like to kill some more.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.

They died of southern fever
And southern steel and shot
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can’t take up my musket
And fight ‘em down no more
But I ain’t a-goin’ to love them
Now that is certain sure.

And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am
I won’t be reconstructed
And I do not give a damn.

Oh, I’m a good old rebel
Now that’s just what I am
And for this Yankee nation
I do no give a damn.

I’m glad I fought against her
I only wish we’d won
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done.

I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done...

[don-o]

No idea what that is supposed to mean.

It means you nailed it

[gop4lyf]

yep

[UCANSEE2]

I like this better........

Mikey got with Sharon,
Sharon got Sheriee
She was sharin’ Sharon’s outlook
on the topic of disease

Mikey had a facial scar
and Bobby was a racist
They were all in love with dyin
‘ they were doin’ it in Texas

Tommy played piano
like a kid out in the rain
Then he lost his leg in Dallas
he was dancin’ with the train

They were all in love with dyin’
they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain

Some will die in hot pursuit
and fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
while sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
and drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain

Another Mikey took a knife
while arguing in traffic
Flipper died a natural death
he caught a nasty virus
Then there was the ever-present
football player rapist
They were all in love with dyin’
they were doin’ it in Texas

Paulie caught a bullet
but it only hit his leg
While it should have been a better shot
he got him in the head

They were all in love with dyin’
they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanch
e coming down the mountain

(chorus)
I don’t mind the sun sometimes
the images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugar-y
and softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
through other people’s eyes

(Pepper by Butthole Surfers)

[.45 Long Colt]

Thank you, FRiend.

[BfloGuy]

We are just now seeing what the South had been trying say.

Nonsense. The Confederate government was even more authoritarian than the North. It's pretty to paint the South as freedom-loving, but it ain't accurate.

[central_va]

Nonsense. The Confederate government was even more authoritarian than the North. It's pretty to paint the South as freedom-loving, but it ain't accurate.

Nobody pays attention to this reconstructed BS history anymore. You are either a federal Boot licker or you are not.

[Fiji Hill]

MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA

Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along
Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong
While we were marching through Georgia.

Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia.

How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.

Yes and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.

“Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!”
So the saucy rebels said and ‘twas a handsome boast
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host
While we were marching through Georgia.

So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.

[DeWalt]

Attacking the civilian population. That was brave. A army many times larger than the Souths got their as*+* handed to them.

[Fiji Hill]

Attacking the civilian population. That was brave.

Brave, like the gallant Southern gentlemen who burned Chambersburg, Pa. in 1864

A army many times larger than the Souths got their as*+* handed to them

What do you mean? Sherman's soldiers were never defeated.

[DeWalt]

Yea sucks to be a paid back. This was once and was not a policy of the Southern Army as it was with the North.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/wasec9/chambersburg.html

[DeWalt]

He also avoided a confrontation with the Southern Army instead inflicting casualties on Woman, Children, and old men.

[BfloGuy]

You are either a federal Boot licker or you are not.

Heh. I'm no "boot-licker". Please go through my postings.

This isn't revisionism. The Confederate government believed in government interference in citizens' lives as much if not more than the North.

We can romanticize their stand for state's rights, but that doesn't make them into freedom-lovers.

[omega4412]

I think they included the third verse in the memorial service at the National Cathedral the week of the 9/11 attacks.