Patriotic Music
Music holds intense emotional power. Just a few notes of a beloved tune can bring strong emotion from deep within out hearts.
Few topics are as emotional as patriotism, and because of that music and patriotism are inseperably intertwined.
These selected songs represent something special — they represent what it is to be an American.
The Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key, September 20, 1814
My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Samuel F. Smith, July 4, 1832
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
David T. Shaw, 1843
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Patrick S. Gilmore, 1863
The Stars and Stripes Forever
John Phillips Sousa, 1896
America The Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates, 1913
You’re a Grand Old Flag
George M. Cohan, 1906
Over There
George M. Cohan, 1917
God Bless America
Irving Berlin, 1938
This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie, 1940
The New Colossus
Irving Berlin (music) and Emma Lazarus (lyrics), 1949
God Bless the U.S.A.
Lee Greenwood, 1984
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Red White and Blue
Lynyrd Skynyrd
U.S. Navy Hymn: Eternal Father, Strong to Save
William Whiting, 1860
U.S. Army Anthem: The Caissons Go Rolling Along
Major Edmund L. Gruber, 1907
U.S. Navy Anthem: Anchors Aweigh
Captain Alfred H. Miles and Charles A. Zimmerman, 1907
U.S. Marine Corps Hymn
U.S. Coast Guard Anthem: Semper Paratus (Always Ready)
Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck, 1927
U.S. Air Force Anthem: Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Robert Crawford, 1938
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