Battle Hymn of the Republic - United States Navy

Battle Hymn of the Republic sung by the US Navy at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. on September 14th 2001 for the 9/11 Memorial Service Hosted by Peter Jennings. Music written by William Steffe 1855 and lyrics written by Julia Ward Howe 11/17/1861.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
"As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
[originally ...let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

(not sung)
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

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[Marksnotebook]

Fox news does a better job at this! No excuse for allowing a blip to come through from some other source.  But then this is ABC

[julius923]

@Marksnotebook This is my fault, not ABC's fault. I was switching VCR speed. The sound is probably from an overwritten layer on the tape.

[Jedmac90]

This sent chills up and down my spine... thank you so very much for uploading it!!

[Iwastherein1969]

this was back when our country actually had a back-bone...the current administration is now trying to make friends with the people who killed our innocents....and yet no one can see this, we are too busy patting ourselves on the back for being the first super power to elect a black leader...just wished the black leader had been one with courage instead of self-righteous indignation..there are so many african american leaders out there much more eminently qualified than Obama..sad sad story

[14pcgamer]

@julius923 what's a VCR? ;)

[heartfire451]

Great song. We should all unite to find out the truth of the false flag terror attacks of 9-11. The real war was always against American freedoms and was conducted against us by the federal government and the corporations. Of course those of us who warned you all of this at that time were denounced as traitors by the flag waving blind patriot idiot types. How do all you blind patriots like the condition your country is in now? We warned you about the New World Order and what they were doing.

[12783USAGRL]

@iloveanime7 my grandfather and grandmother were also veterans of World War II

[seahorseruler]

@Marksnotebook stupid conservative anti-liberal. Fox news sucks.

[ewd76]

10 years ago

[myfrees]

To Arms, To Arms!

[CountOrsino]

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel,

As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal,

Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,

Since God is marching on.

Pleased to hear that verse left in.

[NonDramaZone]

@romangeneralbob I agree.  That song deserves better treatment.

[romangeneralbob]

thanks organ now i cant hear shit.