Posted on 10/08/2009 11:02:45 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Rush Limbaugh's parody of children singing to Obama "Battle Hymn of the Rush Limbaugh." (Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
Brilliant on Rush’s part. He knows how to skewer the libs.
Last man standing !
And he plays this while smoking a big fat cigar! lol
It was enough when Obamiac did a parody on this hymn
Is nothing is sacred today...
This I strongly disagree with that Rush felt he had to top it!
Leave the Hymns alone!
/Bumpity Bump Bump Bump Ziggy Diddy Doo Waa.
P.S. I /bumped you because you hate the parody
Thsi hymn has touched my soul first in my childhood and all through life.
I would say like Mark Levin who spirit was witness to as a child when he visited Constitutional Hall it is the same for me when I hear this Hymn The Battle of the Republic.
Some of us it is in our spirit it is in aw a reverent thing!
Something like that should not be used for common jocularity
Because it belongs to Jesus Chirst!
You are wrong, man has free will to make and do what man wills.
Who are you to dictate what belongs to Jesus or God?
You are not the gate keeper of God or Jesus.
Shame on you.
Rush's parody was well richly deserved...
Damn right it was! And it wasn't perverse in any way.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was dedicated to the Lord how hard is that to understand?
This Anthem/Hymn when done right has the witness of the Spirit of the Holy Ghost.
To put it in another context to use for lampoons and parody takes away and marginalized the beauty and spirit of that Hymn!
It does not lampoon the jerks in the world it suppose too as much as it does to desensitize.
Oh hum it becomes common
I am sure many have not considered the cause and effect.
I know it was not intentional it is one thing when the left is mean spirited and we try to poke fun just not with things that are sacred.
The reason something’s are sacred is because it has the present of the Holy Spirit!
IMHO
What’s wrong with using the music to make a song about the greatest conservative EVER to walk the planet??!!!
Now that I can agree with just not that Anthem!:)
Has anyone posted the words to Rush’s parody of the Obama praise hymn?
Some history of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
The tune was written around 1855 by William Steffe. The first known lyrics were called "Canaan's Happy Shore" or "Brothers, Will You Meet Me?" and the song was sung as a campfire spiritual. The tune spread across the United States, taking on many sets of new lyrics.
Thomas Bishop, from Vermont, joined the Massachusetts Infantry before the outbreak of war and compiled a popular set of lyrics, circa 1860, titled "John Brown's Body" which became one of his unit's walking songs. According to writer Irwin Silber (who has written a book about Civil War folk songs), the original lyrics were only obliquely about John Brown, the famed abolitionist. More particularly the lyrics were about a Scotsman of the same name who was a member of the 12th Massachusetts Regiment, and the lyrics were composed to poke some good-natured fun at the runty, mild-mannered Scotsman who shared the same name as the much more famous and fearsome abolitionist.[1]
Bishop's battalion was dispatched to Washington, D.C. early in the Civil War, and Julia Ward Howe heard this song during a public review of the troops in Washington. Rufus R. Dawes, then in command of Company "K" of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, stated in his memoirs that the man who started the singing was Sergeant John Ticknor of his company. By this time the association with the diminutive Scotsman John Brown was forgotten or unknown to most listeners, who heard only a rough and somewhat oddly-phrased marching song about John Brown the abolitionist. Howe's companion at the review, the Reverend James Clarke, suggested to Howe that she write new words for the fighting men's song. Staying at the Willard Hotel in Washington on the night of November 18, 1861, Howe awoke with the words of the song in her mind and in near darkness wrote the verses to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" [1]. Of the writing of the lyrics, Howe remembers, "I went to bed that night as usual, and slept, according to my wont, quite soundly. I awoke in the gray of the morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to twine themselves in my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, 'I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and forget them.' So, with a sudden effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper."[2]
Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was first published on the front page of The Atlantic Monthly of February 1862. The sixth verse written by Howe, which is less commonly sung, was not published at that time. The song was also published as a broadside in 1863 by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments in Philadelphia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has made numerous recordings of Julia Ward Howe's Civil War song, performed from the 1944 arrangement by Peter J. Wilhousky, which has become the preferred one for choruses everywhere.
It should be mentioned that in the 1944 arrangement, the last verse ends with the original words: "As He died to make men holy, Let us DIE to make men free." This was later changed for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir recordings to:
"As He died to make make holy, Let us LIVE to make men free."
That is the same as changing the words of a valuable historical document and is typical of "politically correct" changes made to songs from the past to make them more appealing.
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/BattleHymnoftheRepublic.htm
/Salute
It’s a great song, but I don’t believe it was ever intended to become a sacred religious experience given the history. ;)
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