Talk:Maryland, My Maryland

message: I learned it as 
From shore to shore, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake/
'Tis time to give the Rebel shriek/ Maryland, my Maryland!
Can anyone verify? Were these the original lyrics? Should this be referenced in the article? I am not going to edit the article because I am not sure of myself on this.98.34.116.243 (talk) 06:20, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate lyrics for Potomac/Chesapeake line

message: Does anyone know what was going in in Maryland in 1939 that they would decide "Now is the time to adopt a Confederate Battle Song condemning Lincoln as the 'despot' and referring to National Guard from Massachusetts as the 'Northern Scum'"?
It seems to me that this would not only be an important part to include in this entry but then would also, perhaps, be a way to get action to put this song in the dustbin of history. [Non-neutral point of view:  I'm from Massachusetts!! ;<)]
2601:18D:A81:3A43:20FC:43AD:3409:2396 (talk) 18:21, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Old traditions die hard. Sf46 (talk) 16:28, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Lincolin ordered an army through the state against the wishes of the then governing body and incited riots from a people who primarily didn't vote for him and were anti-war, then he defied the constitution and the will of the supreme court so he could unjustly jail dissenters and political writers who disagreed with him and put the state under martial law. This dragged the state into a war they had objected to and effectively turned the state into a war zone. Its really not surprising that the writer of the song thought of Lincoln was viewed so negatively, or that John Wilkes Booth (a native Marylander of that era) later shouted "ser septum tyrannis" as he assassinated Lincoln later on. Like it or not, this song covers a lot of very important history to the state, and I'd rather not whitewash history by changing the lyrics that have a deep meaning for the sake of having a less controversial state song.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.207.34 (talk) 21:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: To begin with, the Maryland state legislature could simply repeal the 1939 act that adopted "Maryland, My Maryland" as the official state song. There's no harm if Maryland is without an official state song for a few years. In 1997, Virginia retired "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" from its status as Virginia's official state song, largely due to controversy over the lyrics' racial content. In consequence, Virginia has been without an official state song for the last 20 years. New Jersey has never had a state song. Mksword (talk) 20:50, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lincoln as Despot 

message: 2009 Maryland House Bill 1241 if passed would change the lyrics of the state song.  The proposed lyrics are (yes, it is written in all caps in the bill text, but I had to make some minor changes to what was copied and pasted from the bill to avoid wikipedia markup):
I
WE DEDICATE OUR SONG TO THEE,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND,
THE HOME OF LIGHT AND LIBERTY,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND,
WE LOVE THY STREAMS AND WOODED HILLS,
THY MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR GUSHING RILLS,
THY SCENES OUR HEART WITH RAPTURE FILLS
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
II
IN TWAIN THE CHESAPEAKE DIVIDES
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND,
WHILE OCEANWARD ITS WATER GLIDES,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
YET WE IN THOUGHT AND PURPOSE ONE,
PURSUE THE WORK SO WELL BEGUN,
AND MAY OUR STATE BE NE’ER OUTDONE,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
III
PROUD SONS AND DAUGHTERS BOAST OF THEE,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
THINE IS A PRECIOUS HISTORY,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
BRAVE HEARTS HAVE HELD THY HONOR DEAR,
HAVE MET THE FOEMAN FAR AND NEAR,
BUT VICTORY HAS FURNISHED CHEER,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
IV
"SAIL ON, SAIL ON, O SHIP OF STATE!"
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
MAY WE, THY CHILDREN, MAKE THEE GREAT,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
MAY GRATITUDE OUR HEARTS POSSESS,
AND BOLDLY WE THY CLAIMS EXPRESS,
AND BOW IN LOVING THANKFULNESS,
MARYLAND, MYMARYLAND.
While the new words are nice, the old words are historic.  Marylanders seem to be forgetting the beating the state took from both sides during the Civil War.  --Josephdurnal (talk) 19:03, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest attempt to change the lyrics 

message: If you click through to "Carry me back to old Virginny," it wasn't written till 1878.  Therefore, the last sentence cannot be accurate, despite having a source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.110.138.37 (talk) 03:41, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Last sentence of the "Origin" section

message: There should be something about the fact that an adapted version of the song became a New Orleans jazz standard. I don't know about the subject that well (maybe later I'll do some research and add something), but if anyone else knows about this it should probably be added.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.130.113 (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Jazz

message: There have been other versions published.  NPR's "All Things Considered" has done it at least twice.
Th following is from http://femmesfatales.typepad.com/my_weblog/2015/10/maryland-my-maryland.html
Back in 1980, during one such effort by our state legislature, NPR’s All Things Considered offered the following alternate lyrics: 
We've got some hills, we've got some trees, we sing in four-part harmonies;  
There's shopping malls and city halls, and cats and dogs and ponds with frogs;  
But none of us has ever meant to overthrow the government.  
From Baltimore to Hagerstown, just take your car and drive around. 
We're near the nation's capital, but we are not stuck up at all, 
So take a stand and shake the hand of every crab in Maryland.  
We touch four states and several bays, the highways mostly run both ways,  
We hope you come and say hello and maybe stop and spend some dough. 
When I was ten my family moved here from West Virginia;  
I went to school in Annapolis, I studied Greek and calculus,  
And now I live in Baltimore and that's what Maryland is for.  
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland. 
I have a dog whose name is Jack, I threw a stick, he brought it back.  
My sister had a cat, I think, my mother had a kitchen sink.  
My father was a decent man, and we all lived in Maryland.  
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland. 
Our nights are dark, our days are fair, we're right next door to Delaware. 
Our song before was full of gore but we heard the Union won the war. 
We're sorry if we made you mad, it was the only song we had. 
Oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland, oh Maryland. 
The time that I heard it was much more recently. The phrase that I "remember" was:
There's Hagerstown and Baltimore, 
And that's what Maryland is for.
agb  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.233.167.63 (talk) 16:27, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Versions 

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message: Objectionable arguably, but a reliable source is needed to establish categories, not editorial whim or spite TEDickey (talk) 21:52, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  obscene?