Maryland could soon replace pro-Confederacy state song

It appears Maryland will be getting a new state song. The current one — the Civil War-era "Maryland, My Maryland" — was a call to arms for the Confederacy and railed against then-President Abraham Lincoln, CBS Baltimore reports.

Its lyrics include lines like "Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!" and "Remember Howard's warlike thrust," evoking Confederate soldier John Eager Howard, who commanded the 2nd Maryland regiment. Lincoln is at one point referred to as a "despot." CBS Baltimore says lawmakers have been looking to get rid of the song for quite some time. Though there has been a decades-long campaign for its repeal, it was only earlier this year that lawmakers voted to scrap it.