Comments on: Battle Hymn of The Republic: Judy Garland’s Powerful Performance

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:01:55 +0000

I’ve had her version on my ITunes for years; this is the best I’ve ever heard. I would like to find a recording with all 6 verses so if anyone here knows of such I would love it. But I don’t want the silly version where they change “as He died to make men holy let us die to make men free” to “live to make men free”. I’ve even heard military bands use this. It is nonsense. Men were dying in the War Between the States.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:33:17 +0000

Sadly, many of the talented youth are mistreated by the adult world and become the money trough.

By: BFC Cpl Jack

BFC Cpl Jack — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:52:51 +0000

Darrell, we are so appreciative of your stating the obvious. Maybe some things are better left unsaid as they do not gain any body any thing in saying them, except a smug sense of superiority that the speaker gets by deriding the person scorned.

James, in reality a good bit longer than a decade. As a child she had a hellacious work schedule and a lot of people made their fortunes off her innocence.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:13:03 +0000

Judy typically performed in that “state” in the last decade of her life.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:26:44 +0000

I think she’s drunk as a skunk…or high as a snake! Pretty good performance nevertheless.

Similar emotions were felt by those of us of the British Commonwealth when Princess Diana died. Amazing what death can do!