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Text: | My Country, ’Tis of Thee |
Author: | Samuel Francis Smith |
Tune: | AMERICA |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 My country, 'tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty,
of thee I sing:
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims' pride,
from every mountainside
let freedom ring.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My country 'tis of thee |
Title: | My Country, ’Tis of Thee |
Author: | Samuel Francis Smith (1831) |
Meter: | 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Freedom; The Life of the Nations |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AMERICA |
Meter: | 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Harmonia Anglicana, c. 1744 |
This now-familiar patriotic song was written by a Baptist minister and received its first public performance at an Independence Day celebration by the Boston Sabbath School Union in 1831. It was written to replace a German patriotic text sung to the same tune.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |