Date of the Marine Corps hymn?

[jetdoc]

I had a question posed to me at work today. I was asked when the Marine Corps hymn was written....I was like, uhhh, lets see, 10 Nov 1775....umm thats not going to be it.

I told her I'd do some research and get back to her. Her moms insisted it was written during the war of 1812.

Here it states the Marine hymn became the USMC's official hymn in 1929.

In 1929 The Marines’ Hymn became the official hymn of the Corps.

http://www.valdezlink.com/marine_corps_hymn.htm

Original lyrics were written in 1890.

http://www.answers.com/topic/marines-hymn

It was an interesting question as I had never really thought about the date it was first written.

[Sgt Jim]

made me rememeber just before lights out in boot,our platoon would sing the Marine Hymn to Night Riders In the Sky,give me goose bumps just thinking about it,damm miss those days!!

[Steve Surface]

The last song in "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions",( Frank Shay, Macaulay Co.,NY, 1927, on page 191), is "The Marines' Song". I think it was a drinking song that became a hymn (re: 2nd verse - "From the pesthole of Cavite, To the ditch at Panama.
You will find them very needy, Of Marines. That's what we are.
We're the watchdogs of a pile of coal, or we dig a magazine.
Though our job lots are quite manifold, Who would not be a marine?"

1890 - Mexican war - unknown Marine poem.
Later became a song (192?) with an Army tune, shortly becoming the "Hymn".

How's that for trivia?

1st Recon '67