And Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. songs and marches for children. I recently encountered a public school where the children no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance at all. Twice a week, the principal reads the Pledge of Allegiance over the intercom into the classrooms, but the children are not encouraged to stand by the side of their desks, place their hand over their heart, and pledge the flag. This simply is not done, and I thought it would be appropriate, given the state of the nation today, to collect some of this wonderful patriotic American music and some of the stories about it in an episode of the Hour of the Time, if for no other reason than to make it available to our children later on so they can remember these things and appreciate our great musical heritage which celebrates our freedom. I'd like to open this evening's program with a rousing rendition of Yankee Doodle. The irony of Yankee Doodle, the first great American popular song and still a popular favorite, is that it may have been conceived as a mockery of the American colonial soldiers. One of the most common legends about the tune attributes its authorship to a surgeon attached to the British Army at Albany during the French and Indian Wars, who was so bemused by the ragamuffin appearance of the colonial troops attached to his regiment that he composed this mocking little ditty sometime in the 1750s. It soon became a popular British taunt, and even the Colonials took to singing it, not realizing that the joke was on them. Supposedly, when Colonel Hugh Percy's troops marched out of Boston in April 1775 on their way to Lexington and Concord, they kept step to the strains of the strains of Yankee Doodle. But the Colonials had the last laugh. As the British beat a hasty retreat, the victorious Americans followed, singing a gleeful rendition of the tune. This arrangement is performed by the Boston Post Orchestra. a Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. By the time of the Revolution, the colonists were making up all sorts of patriotic variations. God save George Washington, our 13 states, America. The words Americans sing today were written in 1831 by Samuel Francis Smith, a Boston minister, for a children's Fourth of July celebration. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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Through the night With the light from above From the mountain Through the prairie Through the ocean I would go God bless America My home sweet home God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her And guide her Through the night Through the night From above From the mountain Through the prairie Through the ocean I would go God bless America I would go God bless America I would go God bless America I would go God bless America God bless America I would go God bless America God bless America My home sweet home God bless America God bless America I would go God bless America I would go God bless America God bless America God bless America God bless America God bless America As the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. Is called the Waltz King So and for equal reason Is America's own John Philip Sousa Known as the March King And if any one march Offers explanation For that title It must surely be His masterpiece The Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa composed it While returning By ship From Europe Swept up in a surge Of patriotic nostalgia And guided He said By divine inspiration The three themes Of the final trio Were meant to typify The three sections Of the United States The broad melody Or main theme Represents the north The famous Piccolo Obligato Is the south And the bold Counter melody Of the trombones Recalls the west Sousa penned the piece On Christmas Day 1896 Presumably in his Hotel suite In New York After the boat Had docked Jerusalem Yeah The новый circinos May In To Legits wiped Bon E J Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I will see your father's face on fire, from his island in the sea. Easily the most recent of the classic United States military songs is one that was known to every child growing up in America during World War II as Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder. It was written in 1939 by Robert M. Crawford, a member of the music faculty at Princeton, for a contest sponsored by Liberty Magazine to find a song for the newly formed Army Air Corps, and was known at that time as the Army Air Corps Song. In accordance with the changes the years have brought, the song and the Corps are now known as the U.S. Air Force. The Army Air Corps is a member of the Army Air Corps, and was known as the U.S. Air Force. The Army Air Corps is a member of the Army Air Corps, and was found at that time as the U.S. Air Force. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. of Newark, New Jersey for the hymn, O Mother, Dear Jerusalem. So stirring and popular was the resulting song that it was serious competition for the Star Spangled Banner when a national anthem was finally selected in 1931. This is America the Beautiful. O beauty of the spacious skies All on the waves of rain O purple, mumbled, and magnified seas O love, O blue and plain America, America O shed its grace on me And crown thy hold with brotherhood From silver shining sea O beautiful for wilderness feet Whose early passion swell O love, O love, O freeing peace O love, O heaven, and magnified sea America, America God bless my every heart God bless my every heart Under my falling self-control Thy liberty in love o love, O God Allah, America O画, o fairy beloved sea Oh, that river I cry For hope, on earth<|sl|> For hope, on earth Your poles and plain Jesus, that of me Oh, you pray, Lord, that's perfect for my life. America, America, in the life of the life, In all what else is love, amen, And everything is all right. America, America, in the life of the life, In all what else is love, amen, And everything is all right. America, America, in the life of the life, In all what else is love, amen, I have found my good in all the way, From this earth's life, In all what else is love, amen, On the morning of September 13, 1814, During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key boarded a British warship In Chesapeake Bay under a flag of truce. His mission was to secure the release of a civilian Taken prisoner during the British evacuation of Washington, D.C. But once aboard, he was unable to leave Because the fleet had begun its attack on Fort McHenry. When the smoke had cleared the following morning, Key looked at the fort to discover that it had not surrendered. He began scribbling a poem And completed it by the time he got to shore. Sung to an English drinking song to Anna Creon in heaven, His poem became popular immediately, Although the Star Spangled Banner didn't become our national anthem Until more than a century later, in 1931. Your homework assignment is to find a book of English literature And locate the third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner Written by Francis Scott Key, For we only sing three stanzas of his poem in our national anthem, And he wrote four. This is our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. That Star Spangled Banner. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. With your Naples and Herants supreme, The earth and our contraries of EU arrangement Our size and size of Jesus Christ, May our ones somehow concierge Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We will join the Battle Hymn of the Republic in progress, taking us up to the top of the hour. And may God bless each and every one of you, and God bless our Republic. look. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thank you.