Text: | My country, 'tis of thee |
Author: | Samuel Frances Smith |
Tune: | AMERICA |
1 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 every mountain side
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.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My country, 'tis of thee |
Author: | Samuel Frances Smith (1832) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Times and Seasons: National |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AMERICA |
Meter: | 6 6 4, 6 6 6 4 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Harmonica Anglicana, c. 1742 |
Notes: | Public Domain. |