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Patriotic Songs

Patriotic Songs. Holy Ghost 2010-11. My Country, ‘Tis of Thee. Text by Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895 Poetic Meter: 664 6664 Tune: America from Thesaurus Musicus, 1744 also known as “God Save the Queen”. 1 st verse. My country, ‘tis of thee, (6) Sweet land of liberty, (6)

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Patriotic Songs

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  1. Patriotic Songs Holy Ghost 2010-11

  2. My Country, ‘Tis of Thee • Text by Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895 • Poetic Meter: 664 6664 • Tune: America • from Thesaurus Musicus, 1744 • also known as “God Save the Queen”

  3. 1st verse My country, ‘tis of thee, (6) Sweet land of liberty, (6) Of thee I sing; (4) Land where my fathers died, (6) Land of the pilgrim’s pride, (6) From ev’ry mountainside (6) Let freedom ring! (4)

  4. 1st verse My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim’s pride, From ev’ry mountainside Let freedom ring!

  5. 2nd verse 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.

  6. America the Beautiful • Text by Katherine Lee Bates, 1859-1929 • Poetic Meter 86 86 86 86 (CMD) • Tune: MATERNA by Samuel A. Ward, • 1848-1903

  7. 1st verse O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood from see to shining sea.

  8. 3rd verse O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And ev’ry gain divine.

  9. Does either song have a refrain? Hmm….

  10. The Star Spangled Banner • Text written by Francis Scott Key • on Sept. 14, 1814 • Following the bombing of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD • During War of 1812

  11. The Defense of Fort McHenry Oh, say, can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.

  12. And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  13. What’s the phrase form? • How many phrases? • Which ones are the same? Which ones are similar? Which ones are different? _____ _____ _____ _____

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