What's your favorite patriotic song?

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This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles version is my favorite

No one has mentioned America by Neil Diamond. It’s a little cheesy, but I like it.
 
I love that song, @DeniseNY!

For all who are not familiar:


There is a reason why everyone wants to come here. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
 
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The Welsh National Anthem is the best patriot song. It’s called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (The Land of My Fathers:


If you ever hear it sung at a rugby match, it is just awesome.
  1. This land of my fathers is dear to me
    Land of poets and singers, and people of stature
    Her brave warriors, fine patriots
    Shed their blood for freedom
Chorus:
Land! Land! I am true to my land!
As long as the sea serves as a wall
For this pure, dear land
May the language endure for ever.
  1. Old land of the mountains, paradise of the poets,
    Every valley, every cliff a beauty guards;
    Through love of my country, enchanting voices will be
    Her streams and rivers to me.
  2. Though the enemy have trampled my country underfoot,
    The old language of the Welsh knows no retreat,
    The spirit is not hindered by the treacherous hand
    Nor silenced the sweet harp of my land.
 
RolandThompsonGunner said:
musical equivalent of cheese whiz.
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This literally made me laugh out loud. It also reminded me of the fact that my wife refuses to buy me the cheese in a can because when we first started dating, she almost broke up with me because I would frequently eat a sleeve of Ritz crackers with easy cheese for dinner.
 
You got me there! I should have said “I can’t believe there are so many citizens who want to destroy our country 19 years later.”
Speech and expression = good
Domestic terrorism and property destruction = bad
 
I don’t think this song is cheesy at all. Melody aside (which I do like) the lyrics when even just read are powerful. I cannot listen to this song without tearing up. (I don’t know how Lee Greenwood can perform it without tearing up.)
 
“This land is your land” is actually a
Socialist mantra: the entire song is a reference to how everyone owns everything. The subsequent, rarely heard later verses specifically undercut the concept of private property ownership. I’m really not down with that concept.
 
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
Ev’ry heart beats true
Under red white and blue
Where there’s never a boast or brag
But should old acquaintance be forgot
Keep your eye on the grand old flag
 
I myself love God bless America. I like it much more than the Star Spangled Banner.

*God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above

From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America
My home, sweet home
God bless America
My home, sweet home*

-Irving Berlin
 
Thanks! And while we’re mentioning James Brown, The Godfather of Soul, the hardest working man in show business…

…his song “America is My Home” is dang good, and really uplifting.

Sheesh, the man was absolutely unique.
 
No one has mentioned this yet, but it will play full blast as a wake up call Saturday:

Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever

I also will dig out my Armed Service Medley and get the piano going!
 
Years ago, I used to BLAST that out the windows of our house, lol!

I actually love Sousa marches, he was genius!
 
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I’m pretty sentimental about the ending to The Music Man: American small town/American dreams. “The Think Method”!

 
Great song and great movie. You know its great when they can cast a Danish woman and Swedish man as Russian villains and no one cares.

I always loved the “Star Spangled Banner” as done by the barbershop quartet, the Gas House Gang. Talented foursome, and gives me chills.

 
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America The Beautiful - an ode to the physical magnificence of our nation; also asks for God’s blessings

God Bless America - written by an immigrant as a thank you to his adopted nation; what could be more American that that?

The Star Spangled Banner - the drawback is that the melody is particularly hard to sing. But if you ever get to the fourth verse, you’ll see that it appeals for us to put our trust in God.
 
Another great one. Check out James Cagney’s wild dance moves:

 
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