Maryland, My Maryland

Maryland, My Maryland

Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902

Music and state

American Civil War, 1861-1865

Sheet music

State songs

Maryland

Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908

"Maryland, My Maryland," has been the state song of Maryland since 1939. Based on "Maryland. My Maryland," an 1861 poem James Ryder Randall, the song decries Lincoln's use of Union troops in Maryland and calls on the state, one of the four border states, to secede. The song became one of the most popular songs in the Confederacy.

The pro-Union version of the song presented here replaces the original anti-Lincoln and anti-Union verses with words favorable to the North and damning to the South.

Winner, Septimus

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1862

Lee & Walker

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[in pencil: Miss Mary Theobalds P.A.M.]

MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND!

UNION WORDS ADAPTED, AND MUSIC ARRANGED BY SEP. WINNER. PIANO, 25. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY LEE & WALKER, No. 722 Chestnut Street, below Eighth.

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MARYLAND MY MARYLAND ADAPTED & ARRANGED BY SEP. WINNER.

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1st. The Rebel horde is on thy shore, Ma-ry-land! My Ma-ry-land! A-rise and drive him from thy door, Ma-ry-land! My Ma-ry-land! A-venge the foe thou must abhor, Who seeks thy fall oh Bal-ti-more, Drive back the ty--rant, peace restore, Ma-ry-land, My Ma-ry-land! 2nd. Hark to a na-tion's warm ap-peal, Ma-ry-land! My Ma-ry-land! And sister states that for thee feel, Ma-ry-land! My Ma-ry-land! Gird now thy sons with arms of steel, And heavy be the blows they deal, for traitors shall thy vengeance feel, Ma-ry-land! My Ma-ry-land!

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3 Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland_ Thy gleaming sword shall never rust, Maryland_ Thy sons shall battle with the just, And soon repel the traitor's thrust, For in their strength our state shall trust, Maryland! my Maryland!

4 Come! for thy men are bold and strong, Maryland_ Drive back the foe that would thee wrong, Maryland_ Come with thine own heroic throng, And as thy army moves along, Let Union be their constant song, Maryland! my Maryland!

5 Virginia feels the tyrants chain, Maryland_ Her children lie around her slain, Maryland_ Let Carolina call in vain, Our rights we know and will maintain, Our rise shall be her fall again. Maryland! my Maryland!

8 I hear the distant battle's hum, Maryland I hear the bugle, fife and drum, Maryland Thou art not deaf, thou art not dumb, Thou wilt not falter nor succumb, I hear thee cry we come, we come! Maryland! my Maryland!

7 Ten hundred thousand, brave and free, Maryland_ Are ready now to strike with thee, Maryland_ A Million more still yet agree, To help thee hold thy liberty, For thou shalt ever be, Maryland our Maryland!

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