1. Patriotic Songs
Holy Ghost

2. My Country, ‘Tis of Thee Text by Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895
Poetic Meter:
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 (CMD)
Tune: MATERNA by Samuel A. Ward,

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….