| Show is from halls halb of montezuma marines fighting song dates to mexican war the united states marines haag completed an investigation into the origin of their famous song from the halls ot of montezuma Monte zurna which they have made famous in almost every part ot of the world the results ot of the investigation reports a san francisco calif united press correspondent show that the song had its origin at the time of the invasion of mexico city in september 1847 near the close of the mexican war elated with victory of american arms over the mexicans an officer sat down in the aztec club and scribbled s crib bled the first verse of the pop ular sea soldier ballad it is thus that the marines account tor for the beginning of the sprightly ballad which has since become a bulwark of their esprit do de corps later the song grew by leaps n and nd bounds verse after verse hsing added by some more or less inspired leatherneck the investigation of the origin of u the song also developed the fact that the music come came from an old french opera genevieve do da brabant eventually no wever the li umbers of verses became so long that the corps set in for a deliberate pruning of everything that was not in accordance cor dance with the traditions of the corps As the song now stands it consists of only three stanzas which begin with halls of montezuma the place of origin and end with the assurance that the marines will be found guarding the streets of heaven the song has been the battle cry of marines in the civil war the spanish american war the world war and in the scores of other international ter operations in which the marines have participated |
