--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Maryland, My Maryland. :-)
> 
> JDG

Could I say, as a Marylander since about the second
day of my life (I was born in Washington DC) how much
I _hate_ that song?  I mean really, really hate that
song.  The state needs to get rid of it pretty much
immediately.

Some of the lyrics read, "The tyrant's heel is on thy
shore / avenge the gore of Baltimore" IIRC.  The
tyrant in question is _Abraham Lincoln_ and the "gore
of Baltimore" was that of a pro-secessionist crowd of
thugs who attacked Union troops passing through
Baltimore in an attempt to reinforce Washington in the
early days of the war.  Everything about it is just atrocious.

=====
Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Freedom is not free"
http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

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