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Berlin gave the royalties of the song to The God Bless America Fund for redistribution to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in New York City. [9] Smith performed the song on her two NBC television series in the 1950s. [10] "God Bless America" also spawned another of Irving Berlin's tunes, "Heaven Watch The Philippines," during the end of World War II.
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
The original lyrics [9] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
Land of my birth This is my country Grandest on Earth. While the second chorus (sung on a repeat, as the introduction is usually not repeated) instead reads: This is my country Land of my choice This is my country Hear my proud voice. Both versions join together at the ending: I pledge thee my allegiance America the bold For this is my country
Lee Greenwood will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his iconic anthem “God Bless the USA” – a love letter to the country – and at 81 years old, he has no plans to slow down.
Vive la France, God bless America.” My hope is really just this: Let’s be the country that the French of Normandy see when they look at these veterans. Let’s be that America, the one the ...
God Bless America is a 2011 American action black comedy film written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.Combining elements of political satire with dark humor, the film stars Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr as a middle-aged man and a teenage girl who go on a killing spree after bonding over their disgust of what American culture has become in a post-9/11 world.
Greenwood is known for writing and recording "God Bless the U.S.A." in the early 1980s, [2] and later "God Bless You Canada". The song gained renewed popularity following the launch of Operation: Desert Storm in 1991, [14] and again, 10 years later, following the September 11 attacks. "God Bless the U.S.A." re-entered the top 20 of the country ...