Posted on 07/04/2024 7:07:37 PM PDT by lightman
I've watched (and far too many times, endured) the Macy's Fireworks broadcasts...
...but this year rocked like a New Madrid earthquake.
Musically it was at 30 minute Trump rally. Nothing woke.
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" buried in the middle...well after an outstanding rendition of our National Anthem at the beginning with melodic quotations in several musical bridges.
I almost watched it, but assumed it would have wokeness highlights. Sorry I missed it.
Ho Ho Ho as Biden would say.
Not sure if anyone say that article yet.
Here’s my couplet to the tune of “Lift Ev’ry Voice” which you will never hear or never read but here:
Old Sloe Joe must go
And so must Kamel toe
To clear the way
For DJ Trump
To rule the day!
My son got to see it live with his marching band group (from Minnesota)
sounds like I should have taken them up on the offer to go along lol.
Well that’s good. I must have come in later where Latin singers were singing in Spanish, so much for Independence Day. But after all, they didn’t call it an Independence Day celebration or even July 4th celebration. It was “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks”.
I was in and out of the Capitol Fourth on PBS...not much woke crap...i was searching the crowd to hopefully find a MAGA hat but did not see one
I only watched the part during the actual fireworks.
Lift every voice and sing,
‘Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on ‘til victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
‘Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native lands.
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If the left actually listened to the words, they would ban this song. I’m cool with it; it’s the song that is the equivalent of America the Beautiful, turning to God as our strength.
Gotta link? :-)
I wonder if the Irish in 1870s were singing in Gaelic on Independence Day, or the Italians in 1890s were singing in Italian, or the Poles in 1900s were singing in Polish, or the Ukrainian Jews in 1920s in Yiddish. Their children sang in English. So do the Hispanic children of legal immigrants, with legal being the operative term.
The history of the song is that it was written in the early 20th century for school children’s pagent honoring the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
The author and composer quickly forgot it but the 500+ children who sang it did not.
Some of them went to college and taught it to their classmates.
Some of those became teachers and taught it to those in their charge.
Try NBC or YouTube
The Boston Pops was actually not as woke as it usually is. Nice surprise for the 4th!
Watching now.
I think we have gone peak woke.
Thank you; I learned something tonight.
This was from the era where the great integration debate was between Booker T. Washington (our side) and W. E. B. DuBois (socialist side), with James Weldon Johnson, from what I can tell, straddling the fence and trying to work with both sides. He would make a good subject for a biopic, except that the woke movie industry would destroy the facts for the sake of their CRT lies.
I meant that peak woke is over.
It’s been in Baptist hymnals forever.
Wow, they briefly sang Amazing Grace! Something has sifted in the spirit I think.
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