https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown’s_Body

I guess I respect some troops a bit

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There were a bunch of banger Civil War Union songs.

Marching Through Georgia

The Fall of Charleston

Union Dixie and bonus trap remix

Also, did you know that Solidarity Forever uses the tune from John Brown’s Body?

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Also, did you know that Solidarity Forever uses the tune from John Brown’s Body?

A lot of songs use that tune. As Utah Phillips put it: The wobblies liked to steal the hymn tunes because they were pretty, and changed the words so they made more sense.

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Love the little stories Utah Phillips tells around his songs

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Yeah, he must’ve had amazing stage presence.

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Lots of union songs also use old time tunes for their melody, too. Like “Union Maid” is a reworked “Redwing”

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I own a reprint copy of the Little Red Songbook and each song instructs you which existing song to sing to the tune of. Btw great cheap book to buy for anyone interested

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Me too! I got it for my birthday a couple years ago.

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7 points

It’d Glory Glory Hallelujah, folk music ripped off hyms all the time

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Rally Round the Flag is still an all time great song, legit gets me every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHLj4Pjbldg

btw a LOT of songs use that tune. Getchan recently uploaded a Maoist who wrote a song to the tune calling back to the start of the Cultural Revolution, written during the period of marketization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ0cFXH02nM

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