Talk:Battle Hymn of the Republic/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Date?

Where did the date of February 1 come from, regarding the first publication of the "Hymn" in The Atlantic Monthly? It being, well, a monthly publication, the issues were not dated like this. It was more likely published it the "February" issue (no specific date), which would have been available sometime in mid to late January. As the info is not sourced, I'll remove it. --Midnightdreary (talk) 19:58, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Winston Churchill?

Should it be mentioned that Sir Winston Churchill requested that the Battle Hymn of the Republic be sung at his state funeral? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RogerInPDX (talk • contribs) 05:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

American History X

Do you think the racist parody sung by Seth in the movie above when he drives his truck/van should be mentioned here? Kulystab (talk) 21:34, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I added it under influences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.141.7.54 (talk) 22:45, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

The Official Song of the FIFA World Cup 1994 used the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Hi.

I read that Wiki needs a citation about this point. Well I share with all a video in YouTube show the final part of the openning acts of the event and Daryl Hall sings the official song of the event.[1]Jaboolanee (talk) 02:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for that, it's certainly interesting, but we can't use YouTube as a source in this instance. The ideal reference would be a secondary source (a newspaper, for example) that discusses the song's official use. TFOWR^{idle vapourings} 09:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Moreover, I've been listening to that song for years, and I don't hear it. Am I missing something? --BDD (talk) 17:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Trying to add a link to the lyrics

In the lyrics, the word "serpent" links to the "Judaic and Christian mythology" section of the "Serpent" article. But the article sections have changed, so there are separate "Jewish" and "Christian" sections. So I want to edit the link to refer to the "Christian" section. But I can't. The lyrics aren't actually part of the article. How do I edit them? Sonicsuns (talk) 01:01, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

They've been moved to a template, {{The Battle Hymn of the Republic}}, and transcluded into the article. Click on the first link to get to the template: you'll be able to edit it as normal to fix to the link. TFOWR 01:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

similarity to the Prussian Der Hohenfriedberger march

The opening bars of the popular Der Hohenfriedberger (1795) are similar to the main melody of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. This is especially noticeable in instrumental versions of Der Hohenfriedberger Repkow (talk) 19:33, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Artist in cover song in American History X

This page says johnny rebel did the song used in the movie, but on the Discussion section on American History X's page it says Johnny Rebel didn't do it, it was just made for the movie. Makes sense, i don't think they'd want to have anything to do with that racist fuck.

Title of the Hymn

I see that all Wikipedia references to this hymn are to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." However, I also see that all historical references to the hymn are to "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Is there an important reason that the word "The" has been added to the title? If so, readers would appreciate why and when this change was made. 76.76.91.87 (talk) 05:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Diminutive Scotsman?

The following sentence, "By this time the association with the diminutive Scotsman John Brown was forgotten or unknown to most listeners, who heard only a rough and somewhat oddly-phrased marching song about John Brown the abolitionist.", implies that the song was originally about a "diminutive Scotsman", who is otherwise unnamed. This directly contradicts the preceding paragraph. I've removed the sentence. If there was a diminutive Scotsman, discussion and citation need to be added.MayerG (talk) 05:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)