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The Itty Bitty Hitty Subcommittee [PATREON PREVIEW] - Leave Me Alone
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Introduction and 'The Battle of Gettysburg'
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Hang on, I want to know what this song Fred Darien's The Battle of Gettysburg. No. Hmm. There's a bunch of OK, here we go.
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On July
'The Battle of Gettysburg': Historical Accuracy and Critique
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3rd in 63, I was a corporal with the infantry, and I left my home in Tennessee, for I must follow General Lee. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Not starting out good. He's on the wrong side. This was Battle of Gettysburg, where a sea of soldiers did converge. Bayonets, I heard them say, and now the charge was on its way.
00:00:49
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I shouted loud of Rebel Yell, and the sky was filled with cannon shell, and a voice cried out, My God, it's hell! This was the Battle of Gettysburg. All right. We're full. 45 seconds
Dramatic Narrative and Emotional Scenes
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into this song. It's only two and a half minutes long. A boy up front fell to his knees, and I heard him cry, Come to me, please. I held him gently and laid him down, and he looked at me from that battleground.
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getting a little homoerotic. Then from the cap I saw a girl, my very soul, this was a girl. She held her side and said to me, if I must die, then let it be. He's just like the next thing I saw an old toad frog and he was dying on a log. I know not fair, but now I pray I'd join him there. Then she smiled and touched my face, closed her eyes and left this place. What? Wait. She just...
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He saw a boy die and then he saw a girl die.
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Rebel yell, and the sky was filled with cannon shell. And a horse cried out, my God, it's hell!
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I
Summary and Historical Inaccuracies
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This was the Battle of Gettysburg. Yes, this was the Battle of Gettysburg. He went out to go fight in the Civil War. He saw a boy die. And then he saw a lady die. And then he cried on the battlefield. And then he yelled, hey, General Lee, cut it out. Stop the war. But no one listened to him.
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don't think this guy knows anything about the Battle of Gettysburg.
00:02:49
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Oh, no, you don't. Sorry. I think I know what that that one needed. And it was the sound of horse hooves clip clapping throughout. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just some clip clapping horse noise. Yeah. I would say maybe a bridge. Or a third. I mean, rule of threes. Yeah. Maybe a another person dying.
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Maybe, maybe an old, an old widow, or perhaps a, Oh, what about like a very rich man? And he said, he's like, is he lying there? He said, can I take my, can I take it with me? And I said, no, you can't. This was a battle of Gettysburg. I am. Oh, what about?
00:03:45
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Is Ram
'Ram-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong': Lyrics and Context
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-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong by the Edsel something that is, that you know? I've heard, I think it was Slam-a-Lam-a. Ram-a-Lam-a-Ding. Ram-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong by the Edsels. Ram-a-Lam-a-Lam-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong. Ram-a-Lam-a-Lam-a-Lam-a-Lam-a-Ding. Honestly, I'm still not sure if I've ever heard this before.
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People back in the olden times, you could just write anything in a song. This is before people were watching out for Satanism. You could just be like, all right, my girlfriend's name is Ram-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong.
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And it's a really it's a really old song so they just don't name new babies ram-a-lam a ding-dong. It's one of those names that fell out like Hitler. Yeah, nobody can name their kid Adolf anymore. Nobody can name their daughter ram-a-lam a ding-dong on account of that song by the Ed souls. Yeah, they
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But if you go down to a senior assisted care living facility, I am sure that they are thick in there. Ram-a-lam-a-ding-dongs all the way to the back of the room. Oh, yeah. Which Ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong? We're going to call you Ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong C. And you could be Ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong P. He Ram-a-lam-a-me with his ding-dong.
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hahaha