Day 23 Song of the Day Challenge: A Song I Believe Everyone Should Listen To

As we continue to deal with Covid-19 and the Pandemonic for Day 23 Song of the Day Challenge: A Song I Believe Everyone Should Listen To I thought I would share God Bless the US but Martha shared it and yes, I could to I knew I wanted to find my own song to share.

I decided I would like to have you listen to and I decided I would ask you to take a little bit of time today and listen to America The Beautiful or the Star Spangled Banner.

As yesterday was Memorial Day and we need to thank not only the LORD for the day he brought us but the Soliders who fight to keep us safe. Past and present.

“America the Beautiful” is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.^[1] The two never met.^[2]

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, “Pikes Peak“, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem was titled “America” for publication. Ward had originally written the music, “Materna”, for the hymn “O Mother dear, Jerusalem” in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.^[3] Ward’s music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled “America the Beautiful”. The song is one of the most popular of the many U.S. patriotic songs.^[4]

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Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates