Posted on 07/03/2019 6:44:51 PM PDT by Lee N. Field
An hour's audio interview about the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The author (Dr. Richard Gamble) has also been interviewed on the Tom Woods Show and Reformed Forum's Christ the Center podcasts.
The singing of the Battle Hymn at Churchill’s funeral is one of the most beautiful things I have seen.
Ping!
Might be of interest
The “flavor of coarseness, possibly of irreverence” led many of the era to feel uncomfortable with the earliest “John Brown” lyrics. This in turn led to the creation of many variant versions of the text that aspired to a higher literary quality. The most famous of these is Julia Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” which was written when a friend suggested, “Why do you not write some good words for that stirring tune?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body
Thanks for the ping!
And the “palaeocons” and neo-Confederates are very saddened.
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