Maryland, My Maryland Chords

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[Verse 1]
[G]The despots hear this on my shore,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
His touch is at my temple door,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland.
Avenge the patriotic [D]war
that fled the streets of [G]Baltimore
And be the marvel queen of yore.
[D]Maryland, [G]my Maryland,
Hark to a hundred songs appeal.
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
Thy mother's stay [D]to thee [G]I deal.
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
For life and death, for woe and weal,
[D]Thy keel's chivalry [G]reveal,
And gird thy bil[D]let [G]limbs with steel.
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
Thou wilt not cower in the dust.
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
Thy evening sword
[D]shall nev[G]er rust.
[D]Maryland, my Maryland.
[G]Remember Carroll's sacred [D]trust,
Remember Howard's [G]war -like frost,
And all thy slumbers [D]with [G]the just,
[D]Maryland, my Maryland.
[G]Dear mother,
best the tyrant's chain,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland.
Virginia shall [D]not [G]call in vain,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the [D]plain,
Six separate years the [G]proud refrain
That baffles million[D]s b[G]ut remain,
[D]Maryland, my Maryland!
[G]I hear the distant thunder howl,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland,
The old lines [D]bugle, [G]fife and drum,
[D]Maryland, my Maryland.
[G]She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dum[D]b,
Huzzah! she spurns the [G]northern scum.
She breathes, [D]she burns,
cha [G]-pum, cha -pum,
[D]Maryland, my [G]Maryland![D]