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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


Title of Song.

Author of Words.

Composer, or Source, of Music.

My Country, ’t is of Thee

First sung at a Sunday-School celebration in the Park Street Church, Boston, July 4, 1832.

Samuel Francis Smith
  1808-

Unknown 1
Air: God Save the King, the English national anthem.

The Flower of Liberty

Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1809-

Carl Wilhelm 2, 3
  1815-1875.
 Air:Die Wacht am Rhein.

True Freedom
From Stanzas on Freedom.

James Russell Lowell
  1819-1891.

Friedrich Silcher 4
  1789-1860.

Our Country’s Call

This poem aroused great enthusiasm during the dark days of the Civil War.

William Cullen Bryant
  1794-1878.

Unknown 5

Air: Der Tannenbaum. The well-known songs, Lauriger Horatius and Maryland, my Maryland, are sung to this same air.

Sail on, O Ship of State!

From The Building of the Ship.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1807-1882.

German air 6, 7

The Poor Voter on Election Day

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

German air 7, 8

Concord Hymn

Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1803-1882.

Ludwig van Beethoven 9
  1770-1827.

The Falcon

James Russell Lowell
  1819-1891.

Friedrich Silcher 10
  1789-1860.

Old Ironsides

Written when it was proposed to break up the U. S. Frigate Constitution, called Old Ironsides, as unfit for service. This appeal was greatly instrumental in saving the ship, which is still in existence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1809-

Unknown 11
 Air: Andreas Hofer.

Hail, Columbia!

Written in 1798 when a war with France was thought to be inevitable.

Joseph Hopkinson
  1770-1842.

Phyla 12, 13

The music of this song, called The President’s March, written by a Philadelphia musician, Professor Phyla, was first played when Washington came to New York in 1789 to be inaugurated.

The Star-Spangled Banner

Written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British in 1814, under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry. It was set to a popular song, Adams and Liberty.

Francis Scott Key
  1779-1843.

Samuel Arnold 14, 15
  1740-1802.

Air: Anacreon in Heaven, an old English hunting song.

The Red, White, and Blue
 (Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.)

The editors have taken several liberties with this song, the chief of these being the use of the more appropriate title, The Red, White, and Blue, and the insertion in the third stanza of the name with which our veteran soldiers fondly greet the national banner. Old Glory. In singing the last stanza the Salute to the Flag can be given with good effect.

David T. Shaw

David T. Shaw 16, 17