Mine eyes have seen the story of the cunning of the Board

Who would sanitize our history where impurities are stored.

Political correctness gone awry we can’t afford!

This truth is marching on ….

Chorus: Glory, Glory hallelujah!

Glory, Glory hallelujah!

Glory, Glory hallelujah!

Our truth is marching on.

The blare of careless trumpets must be silenced by retreat

Lest sifting out the names of school befit their judgment seat.

Be swift, alumni Generals, to campaign for their defeat!

Shared truth is marching on.

Virginia’s cherished heroes were in earlier contexts bred.

To hold them to our standards is a trick played on the dead.

Imposed anachronism is a moral scholar’s dread!

His truth is marching on.

A school’s name stands for more than what is chiseled o’er its door

A century shared by fifty thousand strong who came before,

Its faculty a guide to knowledge, active life and more!

A school’s truth marches on.

Though change and sanctimony merge to form a zealous foe.

Frugality and common sense must guard the status quo.

’Til calm brings new schools named so our diversity can grow!

New truth is marching on.

Neil M Shawen

Washington-Lee High School, 1964