The Marine's Hymn is NOT American Born! WHAAAT!
Shocking isn't it? I just discovered this fact recently. One of my students started playing the Marine Corp Hymn in the Bastien Level 2 Lesson Book. I always like to give my students a miniature music history lesson on a piece, especially one as iconic as the Marine Hymn. It sounds so bold, so brave, and it really gets your heart pumping when you hear a men's chorus singing it accompanied by a brass band. How American! Or not. No one knows who wrote the lyrics, but it turns
