Posted on 09/10/2020 6:29:33 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
"Maryland, My Maryland” remains – controversially – Maryland’s state song. But it won’t be heard this Preakness day – or likely ever again at Pimlico – snapping a tradition that dated back to 1909.
A company spokesperson confirmed the move September 10.
The Maryland Jockey Club’s decision to ditch the song came as part of the company’s, and the nation’s, reckoning with issues of race and racism that have come to the fore this year following the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man killed by police.
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I went through elementary school in Maryland where we sung it in assembly. I was traveling with a Korean captain in the 1950s in Korea and started to sing “Maryland, my Maryland.” He stopped me in horror. “Stop! That’s a North Korean communist song,” he said, “you can’t sing that!” I guess the tune has been appropriated by all sorts.
The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!
II
Hark to an exiled son’s appeal,
Maryland!
My Mother State! to thee I kneel,
Maryland!
For life or death, for woe or weal,
Thy peerless chivalry reveal,
And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,
Maryland! My Maryland!
III
Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland!
Remember Carroll’s sacred trust,
Remember Howard’s warlike thrust,-
And all thy slumberers with the just,
Maryland! My Maryland!
IV
Come! ‘tis the red dawn of the day,
Maryland!
Come with thy panoplied array,
Maryland!
With Ringgold’s spirit for the fray,
With Watson’s blood at Monterey,
With fearless Lowe and dashing May,
Maryland! My Maryland!
V
Come! for thy shield is bright and strong,
Maryland!
Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong,
Maryland!
Come to thine own anointed throng,
Stalking with Liberty along,
And sing thy dauntless slogan song,
Maryland! My Maryland!
VI
Dear Mother! burst the tyrant’s chain,
Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the plain-
Sic semper! ‘tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland!
Arise in majesty again,
Maryland! My Maryland!
VII
I see the blush upon thy cheek,
Maryland!
For thou wast ever bravely meek,
Maryland!
But lo! there surges forth a shriek,
From hill to hill, from creek to creek,
Potomac calls to Chesapeake,
Maryland! My Maryland!
VIII
Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll,
Maryland!
Thou wilt not crook to his control,
Maryland!
Better the fire upon thee roll, Better the shot, the blade, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the Soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!
IX
I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland!
The Old Line bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! She burns! She’ll come! She’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
“patriotic gore?”
I see what you mean about not that heart lifting. LOL!
Yes, I understand now about it being a song.
And I join you in your sadness about the races. My mom grew up in Kentucky and we watched the Triple Crown every year.
I hope that, at least, the women wore lovely hats and that there were mint juleps.
Oh, wait, this thread was about the Preakness, not the Derby. Sorry.
And I’m sorry if I made another mistake! The timing is all weird.
Another ‘And you snatch your rattling last breaths, with deep-sea diver sounds’ Maryland death knell ping. Fargin’ sneaky bastages.
Don’t worry about this cowardly act. No sane white person will go to the track at Pimlico unless they are packing.
Used to be a nice, safe area. My girlfriend lived directly across the street from it and we would wander over and watch them exercise the horses.
Today it is a drug-dealing and crime center area (Belvedere and Pimlico Avenue area). No sane white person would be caught there on a good day. The blacks ruined the area decades ago. Only the width of Northern Parkway saved the areas above it on Park Heights Avenue (Pimlico Jr. High, the Jewish Communist Center, several synagogues and a church, old age homes).
We have given up on visiting Baltimore. I was born and raised there, knew NW Baltimore like the back of my hand, and never had any problems except for a few passing thru crackers/hillbilly anti-semites from Hamilton/Hampden.
It used to be safe. Now you risk your life living there, even in the good or once good areas. Been reading that black crime is soaring along Liberty Heights Avenue/Liberty Road, and on parallel Reisterstown Road. It ain’t the Amish who are doing it.
I feel badly for the decent black families who moved out into those areas trying to escape North Avenue crime. It followed them like tar on a shoe.
It is a bit problematic as it refers to tyrants. Maryland was a slave state.
It’s part of the country, the United Dtates, which they hate and are dead set on destroying.
I never would have know if not for woke, leftist scum.
ML/NJ ("Honest Yankee")
Nonetheless, whatever you think of it, it was still one of the 3 most popular songs of the CW.
You have to admit, now Hampden is basically a “safe” area.
The Jews retreated from Pimlico up to Pikesville and the blacks followed and filled up the gap.
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