With its criticism of Abraham Lincoln’s “despot’s heel” and “northern scum,” the state song, “Maryland, My Maryland,” has inspired decades of controversy for its Confederate sympathies.

Jamie Raskin, the U.S. representative for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, has addressed that by co-writing another song that refers to the Chesapeake Bay, orioles and figures from the state’s abolitionist and civil rights history.

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