Posted on 10/05/2004 10:34:01 PM PDT by SAMWolf
Morning Neil.
Miss your dial up yet? ;-)
Morning E.G.C.
Rain showed up last night and we have light rain this morning. It helped bring down a lot of leaves.
Good Morning Mayor.
Hi Feather!!
;-)
Thanks for the Norton heads-up.
I think Rather went to that school of journalism. ;-)
Morning GailA.
I get dibs on the first two pots!!
Here are the lyrics to the song about Missouri that Harry Macarthy wrote. I remember my grandmother playing it on her piano when I was a boy. She didn't sing the words. Although her family's sentiments were definitly pro southern I think she liked the melody and it also was her way of playfully reminding my grandfather that his father was a Union vet.
Missouri! Missouri! bright land of the West!
Where the way worn emigrant always found rest,
Who gave to the farmer reward for his toil,
Expended in turning and breaking the soil.
Awake to the notes of the bugle and drum,
Awake from your slumber the tyrant hath come!
And swear by your honor your chains shall be riven,
And add your bright star to our flag of eleven.
They forced you to join in their unholy fight,
With fire and with sword, with power and with might.
´Gainst father and brother, and loved ones so near,
´Gainst women, and children, and all you hold dear;
They've o´er run your soil, insulted your press,
They´ve murdered your citizens—shown no redress—
So swear by your honor your chains shall be riven,
And add your bright star to our flag of eleven.
Missouri! Missouri! oh, where thy proud fame!
Free land of the west, thy once cherished name,
Now trod in the dust by a despot´s command,
Proclaiming his own tyrant law o´er the land;
Brave men of Missouri, strike without fear,
McCulloch, and Jackson, and Price are all near.
Then swear by your honor your chains shall be riven,
And add your bright star to our flag of eleven.
Morning PE.
Nice one. My Mom and I came through Ellis Island.
Morning Lee Heggy.
Thanks for the lyrics to the song and for sharing the story of your grandparents.
Good Morn' ya'll. Grits and coffee for everyone. Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue. Got one on my truck, inspired by wardaddy of course!
Yipppee. Grits! It's good to see you sb.
Morning stainlessbanner.
Good to see ya drop in.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 06:
1552 Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China)
1819 Willem A Scholten potatochip manufacturer
1820 Jenny Lind Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz)
1824 Henry Chadwick baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1831 Richard Dedekind mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1846 George Westinghouse, prolific inventor, held over 100 patents on creations including air brakes for trains.
1849 Sir Basil Zaharoff arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1882 Karol Szymanowski Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1888 Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
1895 Caroline Gordon Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1897 Jerome Cowan NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
1905 Helen N Moody tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906 Janet Gaynor Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
1909 Carol Lombard actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1917 Robert Mitchum actor (Thunder Road)
1925 Shana Alexander NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
1930 Hafez al Assad "president" (Syria)
1942 Britt Ekland Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 Fred Travalena NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
1947 Klaus Dibiasi Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1959 [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd baseball pitcher
Morning to you Sam! Your quite welcome! I live in a predominately Black and Hispanic neightborhood and I can hoist the Bonnie Blue on the pole in my front yard and nobody say's a thing about it except that it's a pretty flag. It's the same with the 1st National (Stars and Bars) or with the Missouri Confederate flag that is blue with a red border and has a latin cross in the canton but raise the southern cross and you will have a riot on your hands.
Marching Through Georgia
Bring the good old bugle, boys! we’ll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along.
Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus:
“Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the Jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!”
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
2.
How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound!
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found!
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus:
3.
Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honor’d flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus:
4.
“Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!”
So the saucy rebels said, and ’twas a handsome boast,
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the host,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus:
5.
So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain,
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus:
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Good morning, all! Great story!
I'm taking CarolinaScout to see one of the SwiftVets this evening, unless there's some disaster at my husband's Place of Employment. Anoreth (my 13-year-old) is on vacation, so I can't go anywhere unless the Dad gets home!
Hi Valin.
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