You are correct, Julia Ward Howe wrote "... let us die to make men free". I read that it was changed in protest of the Korean War. Usually the "let us live" version is sung today. But back during the Civil War they were less squeamish about the idea of dying for a cause. "As He died... let us die" does make more sense than "as He died... let us live".
I wish Judy had sung the whole song instead of just the one verse!
It is too bad that Lincoln died in murder. If he had lived both he and Grant would have carried out their plan to take all the blacks back to Africa that wanted to go. Sometimes I wonder what had happened to the world if this had come to fruition!!
To understand the beauty this hymn, the key is the Holy Bible. The freedom is from sin(hate,murder,witchcraft,lust etc) through the belief in Christ....for a republic to be truly great sin must be absent...Hymns are about God, not to be claimed by white or black, but to glorify God Almighty
David Houston. You are right. The political Supreme Ct. let us down before the "Civil War" just as they are doing now. I thunk it was constitutional for the South to secede and then any war would have been fought over the land further west. I stir think slavery would have died out within 20 years in the South.
mbaughman28
You are correct, Julia Ward Howe wrote "... let us die to make men free". I read that it was changed in protest of the Korean War. Usually the "let us live" version is sung today. But back during the Civil War they were less squeamish about the idea of dying for a cause. "As He died... let us die" does make more sense than "as He died... let us live". I wish Judy had sung the whole song instead of just the one verse!
michaeltrk1
It is too bad that Lincoln died in murder. If he had lived both he and Grant would have carried out their plan to take all the blacks back to Africa that wanted to go. Sometimes I wonder what had happened to the world if this had come to fruition!!
Stanford Lee
Pray to Christ for The USA to be HEALED 2 Chronicles 7: 14 to 15 KJV
Helmer rodriguez
GOD bless you JUDY COLLINS
eirwal777
To understand the beauty this hymn, the key is the Holy Bible. The freedom is from sin(hate,murder,witchcraft,lust etc) through the belief in Christ....for a republic to be truly great sin must be absent...Hymns are about God, not to be claimed by white or black, but to glorify God Almighty
bill coleman
David Houston. You are right. The political Supreme Ct. let us down before the "Civil War" just as they are doing now. I thunk it was constitutional for the South to secede and then any war would have been fought over the land further west. I stir think slavery would have died out within 20 years in the South.
REDFOX393
Narrator , as well as songstress*
Tom Wilson
This poetry sends chills up my spine. ISIS, be warned.
Paulina Olguin
This version gives me goosebumps and sends chills down my spine.
eventidewinds
I feel a new civil war is approaching, we still havent learned our lesson, and therefore bound to repeat it...shame
Clarence Uhlmann
Wow...she is so good. Her voice is the best........
Das Board mit Rollen
THIS SONG IS DEDEICATED TO ALL MEN AND WOMEN WHO MARCH TO WAR....
Helmer rodriguez
FOREVER JUDY COLLINS