Changing the lyrics to Maryland State Song

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I remember this debate going on since at least the Civil Rights upheavals of the 1950s and 60s. Some of us used to chuckle because very few Marylanders (let alone residents of other states) could even tell you what the first stanza of Maryland, My Maryland says -- let alone the fact that there so many verses to the entire thing. Most didn't/still don't know the history of the song.

The same holds true today. It is not a New York, New York kinda song! It seems to me that the Maryland State Song only gets pulled out by politicians at times of controversy or elections.