[78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree

[David Lennick]

Wasn't it a close vote between English and German to be the official language of the US at one point?

 

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> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:04:42 -0400
> From: gene.baron at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree
> 
> As a lifelong Marylander, I guess I better chime in. Yes the state uses 'O
> Tannenbaum' as its official song -- not sure why, but there was and still is
> a large community originally from Germany (at least one church here in
> Baltimore still has a German-language service every week, and there were
> many German restauants (mostly gone now) up until about 40 or so years
> ago.) Interestingly, the words to the song are of a very anti-Northern and
> pro-Confederate bent -- even though Maryland never seceded and remained in
> the Union during the US Civil War, it was heavily split between pro-Union
> and pro-Confederate sympathies. There have been attempts to change the
> words but none have gotten anywhere.
> 
> Gene (one of the 'Northern scum' mentioned in the song)
> gene.baron at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM, David Breneman
> <david_breneman at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > --- On Tue, 6/22/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Which came first..O Tannenbaum or My Maryland? And when?
> >
> > I take this to mean that "My Maryland" has the same melody
> > as "O Tannenbaum." The German melody (although not with the
> > modern lyrics) was written in the mid-late 1500s. I guess
> > that predates the state of Maryland, although some of those
> > eastern state are getting pretty geriatric. :-)
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> >
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