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Title of Song.	Author of Words.	Composer, or Source, of Music.
My Country, ’t is of Thee First sung at a Sunday-School celebration in the Park Street Church, Boston, July 4, 1832.	Samuel Francis Smith 1808-	Unknown 1 Air: God Save the King, the English national anthem.
The Flower of Liberty	Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-	Carl Wilhelm 2, 3 1815-1875. Air:Die Wacht am Rhein.
True Freedom From Stanzas on Freedom.	James Russell Lowell 1819-1891.	Friedrich Silcher 4 1789-1860.
Our Country’s Call This poem aroused great enthusiasm during the dark days of the Civil War.	William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878.	Unknown 5 Air: Der Tannenbaum. The well-known songs, Lauriger Horatius and Maryland, my Maryland, are sung to this same air.
Sail on, O Ship of State! From The Building of the Ship.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882.	German air 6, 7
The Poor Voter on Election Day	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	German air 7, 8
Concord Hymn Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836.	Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882.	Ludwig van Beethoven 9 1770-1827.
The Falcon	James Russell Lowell 1819-1891.	Friedrich Silcher 10 1789-1860.
Old Ironsides Written when it was proposed to break up the U. S. Frigate Constitution, called Old Ironsides, as unfit for service. This appeal was greatly instrumental in saving the ship, which is still in existence.	Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-	Unknown 11 Air: Andreas Hofer.
Hail, Columbia! Written in 1798 when a war with France was thought to be inevitable.	Joseph Hopkinson 1770-1842.	Phyla 12, 13 The music of this song, called The President’s March, written by a Philadelphia musician, Professor Phyla, was first played when Washington came to New York in 1789 to be inaugurated.
The Star-Spangled Banner Written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British in 1814, under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry. It was set to a popular song, Adams and Liberty.	Francis Scott Key 1779-1843.	Samuel Arnold 14, 15 1740-1802. Air: Anacreon in Heaven, an old English hunting song.
The Red, White, and Blue (Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.) The editors have taken several liberties with this song, the chief of these being the use of the more appropriate title, The Red, White, and Blue, and the insertion in the third stanza of the name with which our veteran soldiers fondly greet the national banner. Old Glory. In singing the last stanza the Salute to the Flag can be given with good effect.	David T. Shaw	David T. Shaw 16, 17