<P> The tune has played a role in many movies where patriotic music has been required, including the 1970 World War II war comedy Kelly's Heroes, and the 1999 sci - fi western Wild Wild West . The inscription, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord", is written at the feet of the sculpture of the fallen soldier at the American Cemetery in Normandy, France . </P> <P> Some songs make use of both the melody and elements of the lyrics of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", either in tribute or as a parody: </P> <Ul> <Li> "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" is a Civil War - era song that has a similar lyrical structure to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". It has been described as "a powerful early statement of black pride, militancy, and desire for full equality, revealing the aspirations of black soldiers for Reconstruction as well as anticipating the spirit of the civil rights movement of the 1960s". </Li> <Li> The tune has been used with alternative lyrics numerous times . The University of Georgia's fight song, "Glory Glory to Old Georgia", is based on the patriotic tune, and has been sung at American college football games since 1909 . Other college teams also use songs set to the same tune . One such is "Glory, Glory to Old Auburn" at Auburn University . Another is "Glory Colorado", traditionally played by the band and sung after touchdowns scored by the Colorado Buffaloes . "Glory Colorado" has been a fight song at the University of Colorado (Boulder) for more than one hundred years . </Li> <Li> The Allan Sherman parody "The Ballad of Harry Lewis" also uses the music of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". </Li> <Li> In 1901 Mark Twain wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated", with the same tune as the original, as a comment on the Philippine--American War . It was later recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio . </Li> <Li> A racist version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was also used in the film American History X as Seth Ryan, played by Ethan Suplee, was driving his van and singing along to his own lyrics while it was playing on the radio . Redneck 28 recorded this version of the song on their 2013 album titled "Spirit of the South". Similarly, Oh! What a Lovely War has a scene in which some soldiers make up their own lyrics . </Li> <Li> "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" is a 1971 song by Terry Nelson . </Li> <Li> "The Burning of the School" is a well - known parody of the song . </Li> <Li> Melanie Safka's song "Psychotherapy" is a parody of the song, with lyrics such as "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the theories of Freud". </Li> <Li> The United States Army paratrooper song, "Blood on the Risers", first sung in World War II, includes the lyrics "Gory, gory" in the lyrics, based on the original's "Glory, glory". </Li> <Li> A number of terrace songs (in association football) are sung to the tune in Britain . Most frequently, fans chant "Glory, Glory ..." plus their team's name: the chants have been recorded and released officially as songs by Hibernian, Tottenham, Leeds United and Manchester United . The 1994 World Cup official song "Gloryland" interpreted by Daryl Hall and the Sounds of Blackness has the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". In Argentina the St. Alban's former Pupils Assn (Old Philomathian Club) used the tune for its "Glory Glory Philomathians" as well . Not heard often nowadays it is still a cherished song for the Old Philomathians . </Li> <Li> In Australia, the most famous version of the song is used by the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an Australian rugby league club--"Glory Glory to South Sydney". The song mentions all the teams in the competition when the song was written, and says what Souths did to them when they played . Each verse ends with, "They wear the Red and Green". </Li> <Li> The parody song "Jesus Can't Play Rugby", popular at informal sporting events, uses the traditional melody under improvised lyrics . Performances typically feature a call - and - response structure, wherein one performer proposes an amusing reason why Jesus Christ might be disqualified from playing rugby--e.g. "Jesus can't play rugby' cause his dad will rig the game"--which is then repeated back by other participants (mirroring the repetitive structure of "John Brown's Body"), before ending with the tongue - in - cheek proclamation "Jesus saves, Jesus saves, Jesus saves". A chorus may feature the repeated call of "Free beer for all the ruggers", or, after concluding the final verse, "Jesus, we're only kidding". </Li> <Li> American punk rock band Titus Andronicus incorporate lyrics from the hymn in their 2010 songs "A More Perfect Union" and "Richard II". </Li> <Li> On an episode of WWE Raw that took place prior to the Wrestlemania XXX rematch between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam, Paul Heyman sang a parody that references Lesnar conquering Taker's Wrestlemania streak . </Li> <Li> The 1983 song "These Things Take Time" by The Smiths contains the opening line of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", changing "the coming of the Lord" to "the sacred wunderkind". </Li> <Li> Father Tom Vaughn recorded an instrumental version in 1976 which is played at the beginning of every broadcast of H. Johnson's Jazz Classics on WABE . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" is a Civil War - era song that has a similar lyrical structure to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". It has been described as "a powerful early statement of black pride, militancy, and desire for full equality, revealing the aspirations of black soldiers for Reconstruction as well as anticipating the spirit of the civil rights movement of the 1960s". </Li>

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