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Battle Hymm of the Republic
YouTube ^ | 6/30/2019 | First Dallas Choir & Orchestra

Posted on 12/10/2019 3:05:35 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2LZ9cVRkDw


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Something all of us need to keep close to our hearts. Enjoy the video.
1 posted on 12/10/2019 3:05:35 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Another: https://youtu.be/2xODSBDPuKQ


2 posted on 12/10/2019 3:17:09 PM PST by Rio
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Outstanding!

Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 12/10/2019 3:18:03 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The words have been somewhat modified (emasculated) since I learned them.


4 posted on 12/10/2019 3:43:59 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Sweet! God bless!


5 posted on 12/10/2019 4:03:34 PM PST by Shark24
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To: EQAndyBuzz
The Youtube link is only 360P but here's 720P...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2LZ9cVRkDw

6 posted on 12/10/2019 4:08:32 PM PST by wannabegeek
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To: Hiddigeigei
The words have been somewhat modified (emasculated) since I learned them.

This is the Peter Wilhousky arrangement that dates from the WWII era and is often performed by choirs. Wilhousky retained the original wording, "as he died to make us holy, let us die to make men free." I know, because I sang those words when performing this arrangement in a choral concert in 1966.

Nowadays, choirs usually sing, "let us live to make men free"--I suppose they have to do so to remain relevant in this age of safe spaces and snowflakes.

7 posted on 12/10/2019 4:26:34 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: EQAndyBuzz
The third verse of The Battle Hymn of the Republic is almost never performed, and in my church's hymnal, it is excluded, as it likely is in most others. However, Lee Greenwood includes it in a recent recording.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal."
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.

8 posted on 12/10/2019 4:32:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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I recall reading that in the hymnal when I was a kid. Even then I thought it was kind of grim.


9 posted on 12/10/2019 4:34:35 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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I recall reading that in the hymnal when I was a kid. Even then I thought it was kind of grim.

It was inspired by this passage, when God said to the serpent in the Garden of Eden,

And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.
--Genesis 3:15

10 posted on 12/10/2019 5:17:09 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Totally awesome!


11 posted on 12/10/2019 5:18:32 PM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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Battle Hymn of the Republic performed at the Ronald Reagan Funeral Processional in Washington, DC. Performed as a dirge as he is being taken to lie in state.

Battle Hymn of the Republic performed at the Ronald Reagan Funeral at the National Cathedral. Performed as a spiritual at his funeral service.

Battle Hymn of the Republic performed at the Ronald Reagan Private Burial Ceremony at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Performed as a celebratory march at his final resting place.

-PJ

12 posted on 12/10/2019 5:47:10 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Yeah, they have.

Why do people do this?

Change one word a year, and in a hundred years we’ll be singing “I am the very model of a modern Major General...”


13 posted on 12/10/2019 6:02:45 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The best rendition by the USArmy Chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80


14 posted on 12/10/2019 6:18:48 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: Political Junkie Too

Winston Churchill requested this to be played at his funeral.
It was one of the largest funerals for a Prime Minister in the history of Britain.


15 posted on 12/10/2019 7:19:23 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukKZIlTEDo


16 posted on 12/10/2019 7:36:57 PM PST by PAR35
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Newsreel of Winston Churchill’s funeral.

Song is at 2:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OWQ6JcSMKE


17 posted on 12/10/2019 8:04:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hiddigeigei

“emasculated”

I would like to know how

‘let us die to make men free’

Is a better idea than
,
‘let us live to make men free”?

Even when I was a kid and watched one of the old WW2 pep rally movie I though it odd that you have your troups sining about going to die.

Willing to die for your freedom, but not going to die.


18 posted on 12/10/2019 8:07:16 PM PST by fproy2222
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To: Political Junkie Too

Just a little change in beat and tempo and the Battle Hymm of the Republic becomes a death march or something uplifting that gets your feet moving and wanting to dance.

At other times it is song with reverence and it becomes aprayer.


19 posted on 12/10/2019 8:18:14 PM PST by fproy2222
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During President Reagan's funeral, it took the mourner on a journey from sadness to prayer to hope.

-PJ

20 posted on 12/10/2019 9:01:39 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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