Is the Battle Hymn of the Republic a suitable hymn for a traditional OF Mass?

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It is a song about buring and pillaging Southern towns. Not exactly written in charity.
 
Lyrics please; where it talks about burning and pillaging Southern towns.
 
I mean… Burning and pillaging to end slavery…

But now this thread is getting into the weeds and may well turn into a debate on the causes of the Civil war.
 
I have only heard it used as a closing recessional hymn at the funeral Mass for a Veteran.
 
FrDavid96 said:
Something people often encounter but hardly EVER notice:

The Eucharistic Hymn Tantum Ergo Sacramentum (yes, the one we use at Adoration/Benediction) is quite often sung to the tune of the German national anthem, Deutchland Ueber Alles
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The tune for DUA is actually the hymn “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”, written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria.

(Wikipedia is my friend 😃 )

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FrDavid96:
Something people often encounter but hardly EVER notice:

The Eucharistic Hymn Tantum Ergo Sacramentum (yes, the one we use at Adoration/Benediction) is quite often sung to the tune of the German national anthem, Deutchland Ueber Alles
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The tune for DUA is actually the hymn “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”, written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria.

(Wikipedia is my friend 😃 )

D
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And by the way, you can sing the words to the theme song from Gilligan’s Island to the tune of Amazing Grace.

Really, you can. Try it!
 
TheLittleLady said:
It is a song about buring and pillaging Southern towns. Not exactly written in charity.
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It says nothing about burning and pillaging towns. It does seek to understand the Civil War in eschatological terms, linking the battle to end slavery with the judgment that will befall the wicked at the end of the age and the coming of the Lord. If you believe that slavery as practiced in the South was sinful and wicked, then it makes since to view the Union army as the vehicle by which God poured out his wrath and justice on such a horrible culture. It is Jesus who sets captives free, and the writer looks forward to the time when the “glory of the coming of the Lord” will be revealed as a literal Jubilee is proclaimed throughout the land.
 
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Just to clarify… we are talking about the DUE/ Tantum Ergo coincidence right? In that case, a tune can apply to many songs, some good and some bad… the tune of a song cannot be morally bad.
 
I pulled up the video of DUA and can honestly say I’ve never heard Tantum Ergo sung to that tune. The first lines were similar but then it seemed to go off in a different direction.

As for Battle Hymn, we had some great alternative lyrics to it as kids that went “Glory glory hallelujah, Teacher hit me with a ruler”. There was more but old lady can’t remember the rest.
 
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Glory glory hallalujah
teacher hit me with a ruler
I met her at the door
with a German 44
that teacher dont teach no more?

One of my uncles mentioned that as a joking schoolyard rhyme he remembered from the early 60s
 
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