Many many years ago I learned a different version of the chorus (which sounds more like something soldiers would sing): "Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll burn the bastards out! Hurrah! Hurrah! We put them all to rout! We took their pigs and cattle and we dumped their sauerkraut! While we were marching through Georgia!"
I learned the same version except it ended with “We stole their cotton, killed their cattle, made their wives and children shout! While we were marching through Georgia!"
The British Army would have stepped in and rolled America back over the border, the American Army even in the early 1860s couldn't have gone foot to foot with the British Army. Without a Civil War the US Army was weak but after the Civil War they came out as the Grand Army of the Hemisphere. Bottom line Canada would've been safe after the first few months of a war.
@@spencermurphy5796 You make a good point, but the British didn't wanna declare a war against the Union because they legit thought the Union could invade Canada. And were actually scared of their navy which is surprising for the British to be scared of a smaller nations navy. But I agree, I think the British woulda won if they had joined. Despite some tensions, the Union and The British Empire wanted to keep their borders at peace because they relied on one another for trade.
@@thescrout9831It would have just turned into a world war because Russia was threatening war to anyone who declared on the US. Probably the only time in history that Russia was a direct aid to the US.
