MARYLAND VOTES OUT STATE SONG

Maryland lawmakers are finally done with the state song that brands Abraham Lincoln as a bloody despot and includes lyrics about “Northern scum”  On Monday, Maryland’s House of Delegates gave final passage to repeal “Maryland, My Maryland” as the state song.  It was written as a poem in 1861 as a call to arms for the Confederacy and, set to the melody of the Christmas carol “O Tannebaum,” was adopted as Maryland’s state song in 1939.  State lawmakers have been trying to get rid of it for decades.