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The tune to which Be kind to your web-footed friends is usually sung is John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. Although, I'm sure anything is place. The original lyrics also by Sousa, first stanza, are:
Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand
A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope.
The water fowl lyrics are usually attribed to Fred Allen, the late, great comedian.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic provided the tune for a great set of lyrics that all kids hold dear to themselves:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school:
We have tortured all the teachers; we have broken ev'ry rule.
&c.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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John Brown's Body is a kid's song? And I'm chopped liver?
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And I'm chopped liver?
Pâtez-vous moi.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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fractured lyrics.. not the original ones! (the refrain remained but the verses were changed.
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John Brown's Body is a kid's song? And I'm chopped liver? in this case, no, you're not. as I read it, Cur was responding to your post.
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Wasn't "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave" the original lyrics, with the Battle Hymn coming along later?
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Wasn't "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave" the original lyrics, with the Battle Hymn coming along later? The original circa 1856 lyric was: Say, Brother, won't you meet us? <repeats> On Canaan's happy shore. Glory, glory hallelujah! <repeats> For ever, evermore. JBB came along about 3-4 years later quite closely followed by BHotR.
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HEY! We can turn this into a word thread:
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
I had heard all the other verses before, but never this (the third).
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