A Book of Patriotic Songs

Home , America the Beautiful, The Yankee Doodle Boy, This Land Is Your Land

Words and music by Irving Berlin Words by Katharine Lee Bates, Melody by Samuel Ward God Bless America, O beautiful for spacious skies, Land that I love. For amber waves of grain, Stand beside her, and guide her For purple mountain majesties Thru the night with a light from above. Above the fruited plain! From the mountains, to the prairies, America! America! To the oceans, white with foam God shed his grace on thee God bless America, My home sweet home. And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy

America by George M. Cohan by Rev. Samuel F. Smith I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy A Yankee Doodle, do or die My country, 'tis of Thee, A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam Sweet Land of Liberty Born on the Fourth of July Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart Land of the pilgrims' pride, She's my Yankee Doodle joy From every mountain side Yankee Doodle came to London Let Freedom ring. Just to ride the ponies I am the Yankee Doodle Boy.

You're a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan

You're a grand old flag, You're a high flying flag And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of The land I love.

The home of the free and the brave. Every heart beats true This Land is Your Land beneath the Red, White and Blue, Where there's never a boast or brag. words and music by Woody Guthrie Should old acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag. This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island When Johnny Comes Marching Home From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream Again waters This land was made for you and me When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! As I was walking a ribbon of highway We’ll give him a hearty welcome then I saw above me an endless skyway Hurrah! Hurrah! I saw below me a golden valley The men will cheer and the boys will shout This land was made for you and me The ladies they will all turn out And we’ll all feel gay, When Johnny comes marching home.

The Star Spangled Banner God Bless the U.S.A. (chorus only) Composed by Francis Scott Key. Congress proclaimed it by Lee Greenwood the U.S. National Anthem in 1931. And I’m proud to be an Oh, say, can you see, by American, the dawn’s early light, where at least I know I’m What so proudly we free. hailed at the twilight’s last And I won’t forget the men gleaming? who died, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through who gave that right to me. the perilous fight, Over the ramparts we watched, were so And I gladly stand up, next to you gallantly streaming? and defend her still today. And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting Because there ain’t no doubt I love this in air, land, Gave proof through the night that our flag was God bless the USA. still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave Over the land of the free and the home of the brave?

The Caissons Go Rolling Along Dixie

by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Mount Over hill, over dale Vernon, Ohio As we hit the dusty trail, And the Caissons go Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton, rolling along. Old times there are not forgotten, Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land. In and out, hear them shout, Counter march and right about, In Dixie Land, where I was born in, And the Caissons go rolling along. early on one frosty morning, Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land. Then it's hi! hi! hee! In the field artillery, I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! Shout out your numbers loud and strong, In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand For wherever you go, to live and die in Dixie. You will always know Away, away, away down south in Dixie. That the Caissons go rolling along. Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

Marine Corps Anthem Army Air Corps Song From the Halls of Montezuma (U.S. Air Force Song) to the Shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles Off we go into the wild In the air, on land and sea; blue yonder, climbing high into the sun. First to fight for right and freedom Here they come, zooming to meet our And to keep our honor clean; thunder, We are proud to claim the title at them boys, give her the gun! of United States Marines. Down we dive, spouting our flame from under, off with one heck of a roar! Anchors Aweigh We live in fame or go down in flame. Shout! Nothing will stop the Army Air A Song of the Navy Corps!

Anchors Aweigh, my boys This is My Country Anchors Aweigh Farewell to college joys, This is my country! Land of we sail at break of day-day-day-day my birth! Through our last night on shore, This is my country! Grandest Drink to the foam, on earth! Until we meet once more I pledge thee my allegiance, Here’s wishing you a happy voyage home. America, the bold, For this is my country to have and to hold.