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The Burning of the School
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"The Burning of the School" (not an official title) is a parody of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic",[1] known and sung by schoolchildren throughout the United States and in some locations in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Like the Battle Hymn itself, the parody is sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body". In versions known to have appeared in print, the opening line always changes the original 'Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord' to 'Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school.' Also, the first line of the refrain, 'Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!', seems always to be followed in the parody by the line 'Teacher hit me with a ruler.' (A few versions have been collected that change 'Hallelujah' to 'What's it to ya?', but most leave the first line intact.)
The rest of the lyrics vary with time and place, but generally involve the children inflicting various types of mayhem on the school and its staff.
In their 1959 book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, the British folklorists Peter and Iona Opie recorded that 'Glory, glory hallelujah/Teacher hit me with a ruler' was frequently sung by children in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. An eleven-year-old girl whom the Opies quoted on the subject identified the song as a parody of John Brown's Body. The Opies did not record whether the Market Rasen song had additional lyrics.[2]
Tom Glazer and the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus recorded a version of this song under the title of "Battle Hymn of the Children". It was released as the B-side of their 1963 hit, "On Top of Spaghetti".
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1 Sample lyrics
2 Anthologies containing versions of the song
3 See also
4 References
Sample lyrics[edit]
Typical lines are[3]
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured all the teachers – we have broken all the rules
We ramrocked the offices and hung the principal
March on, third grade, march on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah
My teacher hit me with a ruler
I hid behind her door with a loaded .44
And the teacher don't teach no more!
Another variation has the following lyrics:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher – we have broken every rule
We plan to hang the principal and secretary too
Our troops are marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Met her at the door with a loaded .44
And she bothered me no more!
Another variation has the following lyrics:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher – we have broken every rule
We plan to hang the principal and secretary too
Our troops are marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Met her in the attic with a semi-automatic
And she ain't my teacher no more!
There are many variations of this song, which nearly always leave the first two lines of the verse and chorus nearly intact and change the third, with some variations to the fourth.
Anthologies containing versions of the song[edit]
Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Weisskopf, eds., Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood. August House, Atlanta, 1995.
News from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor, Highbridge Audio, 1991. ISBN 978-0-942110-38-8
See also[edit]
Children's street culture
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Michael Dirda (November 6, 1988). "Where the Sidewalk Begins". The Washington Post. p. 16.
Jump up ^ Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959.
Jump up ^ Tristan Clark (2007). Stick This in Your Memory Hole. p. 166. ISBN 0-9803351-2-4.
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Northern Securities Co. v. United States
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Northern Securities Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 14–15, 1903
Decided March 14, 1904
Full case name
Northern Securities Company, et al., Apts. v. United States
Citations
193 U.S. 197 (more)
Court membership
Chief Justice
Melville Fuller
Associate Justices
John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer
Henry B. Brown · Edward D. White
Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. · William R. Day
Case opinions
Majority
Harlan, joined by Day, Brown, McKenna
Concurrence
Brewer
Dissent
Holmes, joined by Fuller, White, Peckham
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act
Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904), was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903. The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
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2 Judgment
3 Significance
4 Notes
5 External links
Facts[edit]
In 1904, James Jerome Hill, president of and the largest stockholder in the Great Northern Railway, won the financial support of J. P. Morgan and attempted to take over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q).[1] The Burlington served a traffic-rich region of the Midwest and Great Plains, was well-managed, and quite profitable. It possessed a finely-engineered line connecting the Twin Cities to the nation's rail center of Chicago, which made it particularly attractive as an addition to Hill's Great Northern.
Hill's strategy was for his railroad and Morgan's Northern Pacific Railway to jointly buy the CB&Q.[1] However, Edward Henry Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad, also wanted to buy the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.[1] Harriman demanded a one-third interest in the CB&Q, but Hill refused him.[1] Harriman then began to buy up Northern Pacific's stock, forcing Hill and Morgan to counter by purchasing more stock as well.[1] Northern Pacific's stock price skyrocketed, and the artificially high stock threatened to cause a crash on the New York Stock Exchange.[1] Hill and Morgan were ultimately successful in obtaining more Northern Pacific stock than Harriman and won control of not only the Northern Pacific but also the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.[1]
Pressured by Harriman's actions, Hill created a holding company—the Northern Securities Company—to control all three of the railroads. The public was greatly alarmed by the formation of Northern Securities, which threatened to become the largest company in the world and monopolize railroad traffic in the western United States.[1] President William McKinley, however, was not willing to pursue antitrust litigation against Hill.[1] McKinley was assassinated, however, and his progressive Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt, ordered the United States Department of Justice to pursue a case against Northern Securities.[1]
Judgment[edit]
Justice Harlan held that the merger was unlawful. Justices Day, Brown, McKenna and Brewer concurred.
Justice Holmes, joined by Fuller, White, Peckham, dissented.
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (April 2013)
Significance[edit]
Hill was forced to disband his holding company and manage each railroad independently.[1] The Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy finally merged in 1969.[1]
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l Solomon, Brian. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing, 2005, p. 51.
External links[edit]
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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Text of Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904) is available from: Findlaw Justia
Meyer, Balthasar Henry (1906). Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 142: History of the Northern Securities Case. Madison: University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
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