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[Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 56715 31556 71211 Used With Text: Beautiful Flag of Liberty

Author: P. H. Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love Refrain First Line: Oh, flag so free Used With Tune: [Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]

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Beautiful Flag of Liberty

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: Hymns for Today #271 (1920) First Line: Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love Lyrics: 1 Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love, Float afar o’er the land and the sea, Proudly wave in colors bright, Thou starry standard of the noble free; Thou beamest the glory of fair Columbia’s home, Thou shinest the light of the lands beyond the foam, O, flag so free, We stand for thee, When strike the bolts of war, and flash the sabres bright. Thou beamest the glory of fair Columbia’s home, Thou shinest the light of the lands beyond the foam; For thee we stand, thou ensign fair of truth and right. 2 Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love, O’er the free thou forever shalt wave; Fall, ye crowns, ye thrones decay; ‘Twas God to thee thy hues eternal gave; Float on, O, thou banner of freedom wide unfurled, Float on, O, thou symbol of justice, o’er the world, O, flag so free, We stand for thee, When strike the bolts of war, and flash the sabres bright. Float on, O, thou banner of freedom wide unfurled, Float on, O, thou symbol of justice, o’er the world; For thee we stand, thou ensign fair of truth and right. Coda: O flag of liberty, float on, O, flag of liberty, Beautiful flag of liberty. Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]

Beautiful Flag of Liberty

Author: P. H. Hymnal: Joy and Praise #199 (1908) First Line: Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love Refrain First Line: Oh, flag so free Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]

O flag so free

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #277 (1927) First Line: Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Beautiful flag of liberty, beautiful flag we love]" in Hymns for Today James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Palmer Hartsough

1844 - 1932 Author of "Beautiful Flag of Liberty" in Hymns for Today Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI. John Perry