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    America The Beautiful!


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    Moved deeply by the desire to create a national hymn that would allow the American people to offer praise to God for our wonderful land, a twenty-four-year-old theological student, Samuel Francis Smith, penned these lines on a scrap of paper in less than thirty minutes in 1832. Yet even today many consider My Country, 'Tis of Thee their favorite patriotic hymn and call it our "unofficial national anthem."

    The easily singable words of the song are matched with a popular international melody used by many nations, including the United Kingdom, where it accompanies "God Save the King/Queen." The emotionally powerful ideas that Smith expressed had an immediate response. The hymn soon became a national favorite. The stirring tributes to our fatherland in the first three stanzas lead to a worshipful climax of gratefulness to God and a prayer for His continued guidance.

    Following his graduation from Harvard and the Andover Theological Seminary, Samuel Smith became an outstanding minister in several Baptist churches in the East. He composed 150 hymns during his 87 years and helped compile the leading Baptist hymnal of his day. He was also editor of a missionary magazine through which he exerted a strong influence in promoting the cause of missions. Later he became the secretary of the Baptist Missionary Union and spent considerable time visiting various foreign fields. Samuel Smith was truly a distinctive representative of both his country and his God.

    My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing:
    Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride,
    From ev'ry mountain side let freedom ring!

    My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love:
    I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills;
    My heart with rapture thrills like that above.

    Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song:
    Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake;
    Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

    Our fathers' God, to Thee, author of liberty, to Thee we sing:
    Long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light;
    Protect us by Thy might, great God, our King!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nwidAdH4A

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    God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938, as sung by Kate Smith (becoming her signature song). Berlin wrote the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside. In 1938, with the rise of Hitler, Berlin, who was Jewish and a first-generation European immigrant, felt it was time to revive it as a "peace song", and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938 sung by Kate Smith, on her radio show. More than just the dramatic words and melody, the arrangement for Kate Smith's performance was accompanied by full band, progressing into a grand march tempo, with trumpets triple reinforcing the harmonies between stanzas: the dramatic build-up ends on the final exposed high note, which Kate Smith sang in the solo as a sustained a cappella note, with the band then joining for the finale. In 1943, Smith's rendition was featured in the patriotic musical "This is the Army" along with other Berlin songs. The manuscripts in the Library of Congress reveal the evolution of the song from victory to peace. Berlin gave the royalties of the song to the God Bless America Fund for Redistribution to the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOeUS8dBFCM

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    AMERICAN FLAG STORYTELLING

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhB1gIarwg

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    God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938, as sung by Kate Smith (becoming her signature song). Berlin wrote the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside. In 1938, with the rise of Hitler, Berlin, who was Jewish and a first-generation European immigrant, felt it was time to revive it as a "peace song", and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938 sung by Kate Smith, on her radio show. More than just the dramatic words and melody, the arrangement for Kate Smith's performance was accompanied by full band, progressing into a grand march tempo, with trumpets triple reinforcing the harmonies between stanzas: the dramatic build-up ends on the final exposed high note, which Kate Smith sang in the solo as a sustained a cappella note, with the band then joining for the finale. In 1943, Smith's rendition was featured in the patriotic musical "This is the Army" along with other Berlin songs. The manuscripts in the Library of Congress reveal the evolution of the song from victory to peace. Berlin gave the royalties of the song to the God Bless America Fund for Redistribution to the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOeUS8dBFCM
    she is the only that could sing this song

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    Early American Music
    Drive the Cold Winter Away - John Playford (1623-1686)

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    American Revolutionary War Song:Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KcJTP8nW8

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    Wisdom from our Founding fathers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Im1a880ygY

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