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What's your favorite patriotic song?

Favorite patriotic song? single choice
	Star Bangled Banner (I'm a traditionalist!);
	God Bless America (I'm a sentimentalist!);
	Stars and Stripes Forever (I'm a marching band enthusiast!);
	This Land is Your Land (I'm a socialist!);
	God Save the Queen (I'm a monarchist!);
Votes accepted starting: 01/01/70 12:00 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

What happened to America the Beautiful???

Yeah, America the Beautiful is definitely my favorite.

Logos Teen

"This Land Is Your Land" for this devout Socialist!

On Ray Charles' rendition, if I may add!

Amado

Your poll didn't explain if this was only American patriotic favorites, since you did include God Save the Queen. Why not also include the revolutionary war 'anti-anthem', "My Country 'tis of Thee"?

All in fun. "America the Beautiful" or "God Bless America" should be our National Anthem. Both are much easier to sing and remember.

Wishing everyone a happy 4th of July!

Steve

Surely in Virginia the answer must be Carry me Back to Old Virginny. The part about the Dismal Swamp always gets me!

Incognitus

How could anyone not like The Battle Hymn of the Republic as arranged by Peter Wilhousky, a fellow Ruthenian Byzantine?!?

If you participated in high school choir at all, you had to have sung his world-famous arrangement of this classic at one point or another!

Al (a pilgrim)

"(My Country 'Tis of Thee) America" is "God Save the Queen!"

I voted for "God Bless America" as "The Star Spangled Banner" is an old English Drinking Song!

I guess the Canadians voted for "God Save the Queen!" :p

Dixie! I'm an Anti-Federalist!

Ray Charles, America. Hands down the best patriotic rendition of a patriotic song ever sung. Where is it on the poll? "Waltzing Matilda" comes in second.

CDL

AMEN, RUSSIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I.
To Anacreon in Heav'n,
Where he sat in full glee,
A few Sons of Harmony
Sent a petition
That he their Inspirer
And Patron would be;
When this answer arrived
From the Jolly Old Grecian:
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
No longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name
And inspire you to boot,
Chorus:
And besides I'll instruct you,
Like me, to intwine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus's Vine."
II.
The news through Olympus
Immediately flew;
When Old Thunder pretended
To give himself airs.
"If these Mortals are suffered
Their scheme to pursue,
The devil a Goddess,
Will stay above stairs.
Hark, already they cry,
In transports of joy,
'Away to the Sons
Of Anacreon we'll fly,
Chorus:
And there with good fellows,
We'll learn to intwine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus' Vine.
III.
"The Yellow-Haired God
And his nine fusty Maids
From Helicon's banks
Will incontinent flee,
Idalia will boast
But of tenantless shades,
And the bi-forked hill
A mere desert will be.
My Thunder no fear on't,
Shall soon do its errand,
And dam'me I'll swing
The Ringleaders I warrant.
Chorus:
I'll trim the young dogs,
For thus daring to twine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus's Vine."
IV.
Apollo rose up,
And said, "Pry'thee ne'er quarrel,
Good King of the Gods,
With My Vot'ries below:
Your Thunder is useless"--
Then showing his laurel,
Cry'd "Sic evitabile
Fulmen, you know!
Then over each head,
My laurels I'll spread,
So my sons from your Crackers
No mischief shall dread,
Chorus:
While, snug in their clubroom,
They jovially twine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus's Vine."
V.
Next Momus got up
With his risible Phiz
And swore with Apollo
He'd cheerfully join --
"The full tide of Harmony
Still shall be his,
But the Song, and the Catch,
And the Laugh shall be mine.
Then, Jove, be not jealous
Of these honest fellows."
Cry'd Jove, "We relent,
Since the truth you now tell us:
Chorus:
And swear by Old Styx,
That they long shall intwine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus's Vine."
VI.
Ye Sons of Anacreon,
Then join hand in hand;
Preserve Unanimity,
Friendship, and Love!
'Tis yours to support
What's so happily plann'd;
You've the sanction of Gods,
And the Fiat of Jove.
While thus we agree,
Our toast let it be:
"May our Club flourish Happy,
United, and Free!
Chorus:
And long may the Sons
Of Anacreon intwine
The Myrtle of Venus
With Bacchus's Vine."

Is there a Patriotic song for the Byzantine Empire?

Is there a "Patriotic Song" for Heaven? Perhaps Holy, Holy, Holy?

If there is a Patriotic song for Heaven that would have to be my favorite Patriotic Song. Dixie and If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Dixie could be second and third favorites.

A good ole' Methodist hymn

Not actually American; I don't think it's in any American hymnals or songbooks, but I've always loved:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/v/ivow2the.htm
(despite it's association with a certain publicity-skank [en.wikipedia.org] )

David,

At least she's pretty. Anyway, she ought to get some publicity for the price she paid to get it.

CDL

Nothing better than Ray singing his soulful version of "America". The musical arrangement was written by an church organist so it sounds very much like a old-fashioned gospel hymn.

Ungcsertez

UC, You surprise me. I was sure your favorite partiotic song was "Ja Rusyn Byl"

Djs,

My patriotism is based on my Father who while being the son of Rusyn immigrants, went on to serve in WWII along with his four other brothers. I have a tape of him singing his favorite Cerkovnjy pisnjy, Rusyn folk songs (including Ja Rusyn Byl) plus God Bless America and America the Beautiful. The childern of immigrants learned at an early age that America was now "nashu kraju". It was a good thing as many of these childern of immigrants went on to fight in WWII, Korea and Veit Nam.

God Bless America!

Ungcsertezs

These were the two that we sang in school after morning prayers, after morning liturgy.

I have heard in the past (i.e., at Holy Cross in Brookline) that the closest song to an anthem for the Eastern Roman Empire is Τη Υπερμαχο ...

Perhaps that was just a rumor, but I think there is more than just a little truth to the claim behind it...

Actually the closest thing the Eastern Roman Empire had to a national anthem was, and is, the Apolytikion for the Holy Cross: O Lord, Save Thy People . . . in some places it can still be heard in its monarchist redaction.

The present Greek state uses the Kontakion for Annunciation as a national anthem, because the revolution against the Sultan which resulted in an independent Greece began on that feast day . . . according to the Old Calendar, of course.

Fr. Serge

I once heard that God Bless America did not become the National Anthem in 1931 because Irving Berlin was a Jew. What a pity! Of course I might have heard wrong. :rolleyes:

Of all the songs, my favorite is God Bless America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. But then again, there is always God Save the Queen. Hee, hee, hee! I bet Alex likes that the best. :p Hey, where is he?

Zenovia

Dear PTSMYTHE you said:

I say:

I would tend to agree with that assessment. There is a martial and triumphant quality to the hymn...something similar to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Zenovia

My patriotism lies with my faith, Ave Maria!

I stated before:
I now say:

I read on the web that there was a movement in the late 1930's to make God Bless America our national anthem. It was Kate Smith, the singer that first sang God Bless America, that fought that movement. She believed that the Star Spangle Banner was more suited because it was written during a war.

Of course both things may be true. Who knows? What is true though, is that the song was written during the First World War. Irving Berlin in 1938 dragged it out of his trunk and changed some of the lyrics. Kate Smith then sang it on her radio show and it became a big hit.

Zenovia

I've heard that also. Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" as a responce to "God Bless America"...it gave American Communists something patriotic to sing that didn't mention God.

Drinking song or not,Star Spangled Banner may be difficult to sing but it is beautiful,dramatic and puts you right on that battlefield where we fought for independence and won. Oh, along with Lift Every Voice and Sing.

Peace,
Cynthia

Some of my favorite patriotic songs include Sousa's Washington Post March, Johnny Cash's Ragged Old Flag, and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. I voted for The Stars and Stripes Forever.

Lots of great suggestions here.

I'd add "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.

And, my guilty pleasure: Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue".

No option to choose "Ще не вмерла Україна" or "Боже великий, єдиний"?!?

My Ukrainian friends say that their favority patriotic song is:

Oj u luzi Chervona Kalyna

It's ranked number 1 on this list. You may want to hear it:

http://www.infoukes.com/culture/music/samples/ne_zhurys/

I.F.

While I voted for "Stars and Stripes Forever" because of it's stirring instrumentals, I love "God Bless America" as a sentimentalist.

Ironically, as I'm a pretty conservative, patriotic American guy, I love the old Soviet (Russian) national anthem.

NEMO

How about "O God of Earth and Alter" by G.K. Chesterton? Different empire, same kind of Godless rulers.

Ryan

Wait a second. I am confused because of apparent confusions on the part of others...

God Bless America is not the National Anthem and never has been. The National Anthem is The Star Spangled Banner.



Logos Teen

Teen,

Where does you confusion come from? I didn't see anyone say that God Bless America is the national anthem, though I did notice a couple people saying it came close to being so or that they wished it were. One referenced the tune of The Star Spangled Banner being from a drinking song (the lyrics to which another provided). Someone else noted the tune of My Country 'Tis of Thee being the same tune as God Save the Queen. Someone else said they sang God Bless America each morning in a parochial school. All in all, no one I saw implied that God Bless America was the national anthem.

You're right, Wondering.

I had misread two earlier posts! I thought they said that GBA *had* become the National Anthem in the 1930s.

It seems to have become somewhat faddish, though, to sing GBA in place of the National Anthem during certain events, or is that just my imagination? I've seen it done quite a few times.

Logos Teen