CLASSIC: Maryland’s State Song was a Diss Track

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the first listen, Maryland's old state song sounds pretty innocuous. There's the usual lauding of the state, a refrain based on "O Tannenbaum" and so on. Yet the lyrics of this song refer to "Northern scum" and call for out and out war with various oppressors. So what gives? Join Ben and Noel as they dive into the strange origin story of "Maryland, My Maryland" in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Oh, welcome to a classic ridiculous history episode.
0:04.5	Folks, we love all kinds of, I don't know.
0:08.1	They call us silly for this, but we love stuff like state birds and, you know, state statements.
0:14.7	Yeah.
0:15.2	Yeah.
0:15.5	Any state craft, whatever.
0:18.3	No, I've actually only just recently kind of become less terrified of birds.
0:21.9	So I'm learning all about state birds these days. But state songs are fun, right?
0:26.2	State songs, yeah. It's not even something I knew that every state had.
0:29.7	Mm-hmm. Yeah, every state apparently has a song, and it may not be the ones that you think of when you think of that state.
0:38.9	In this classic episode, we are exploring something that surprised the heck out of both of us.
0:46.7	The state of Maryland has a weird, weird banker for their official song.
0:54.9	Oh, Maryland, my Maryland,
0:57.3	making reference to things like Northern Scum
1:00.1	and calling out a war with their ops.
1:03.9	Man, there's some firebars of this tune.
1:06.8	We're going to jump in to the story of Maryland State song right now.
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