Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
RULES
No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
Follow all Lemmy.world rules
I never realized how hard this song goes until I was listening to the Wasteland 3 soundtrack.
The choral renditions were really too good for that game. Not because W3 was bad - it was great. But goddamn, those pieces belonged in some fucking gut-wrenching work of art.
The song circulated widely before the published version. I heard on a podcast that the earliest version of what came to be the official song came from an army unit. They had a member, who was absent, when John Brown was hanged. That soldier was also named John Brown and the men joked that it was their comrade who was killed.
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave
But his truth keeps marching on.
It caught on during the War and had innumerable different lyrics. My personal favorite:
We'll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree
We'll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree
We'll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree
John Brown's truth keeps marching on