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Some history teacher’s face is going to be powerful’ red when she finds but that the high school girls iwho furnished music for the recent U. D. C. meeting in Front Royal rendered a lusty account of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” What made it even funnier was that the lady who introduced them did so by saying, “These young ladies will now entertain us with a group of old Southern melodies.” Shades of our grandfather Confederate veterans! . . . Their ghostly rebel yells should have drowned out the music or else should have sung the proper words of “Hang John Brown to a Sour Apple Tree!”
Of course, the tale goes that when the first group of American soldiers landed in England during World War I, it happened to be a Georgia regiment. The English bandmaster, hunting for something appropriate to play when the soldiers marched ashore, found (and played) “Marching through Georgia.”
Somehow, I’ve never been able to believe that tale. I’m not versed in such matters, but I’d lcnotw better than to play “The British Grenadiers” in a March 17th parade; and if I didn’t know what to play, I’d find out—-or else keep silent. /Mr. Eisenhower made a break sorta’ like the wrong-music item when he mentioned his admiration for Oliver Cromwell. Most folks
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