My Country, 'Tis of Thee

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", juga dikenal dengan judul "America", adalah lagu patriotik Amerika Serikat. Liriknya ditulis oleh Samuel Francis Smith, sementara melodi yang digunakan adalah melodi yang sama dengan lagu kebangsaan Britania Raya, "God Save the King", yang digubah oleh Thomas Arne. Lagu ini pernah menjadi salah satu lagu kebangsaan de facto Amerika Serikat (bersama dengan lagu lain seperti "Hail, Columbia") sebelum lagu "The Star-Spangled Banner" ditetapkan sebagai lagu kebangsaan resmi Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1931.

Lagu My Country, 'Tis of Thee

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" ("America"), United States Air Force Heritage of America Band

Lirik

1

My country, 'tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims' pride,

From ev'ry mountainside

Let freedom ring!

2

My native country, thee,

Land of the noble free,

Thy name I love;

I love thy rocks and rills,

Thy woods and templed hills;

My heart with rapture thrills,

Like that above.

3

Let music swell the breeze,

And ring from all the trees

Sweet freedom's song;

Let mortal tongues awake;

Let all that breathe partake;

Let rocks their silence break,

The sound prolong.

4

Our fathers' God to Thee,

Author of liberty,

To Thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright,

With freedom's holy light,

Protect us by Thy might,

Great God our King.

Bait tambahan untuk merayakan 100 tahun pengangkatan George Washington sebagai presiden:

5

Our joyful hearts today,

Their grateful tribute pay,

Happy and free,

After our toils and fears,

After our blood and tears,

Strong with our hundred years,

O God, to Thee.

Bait-bait tambahan oleh Henry van Dyke:

6

We love thine inland seas,

Thy groves and giant trees,

Thy rolling plains;

Thy rivers' mighty sweep,

Thy mystic canyons deep,

Thy mountains wild and steep,--

All thy domains.

7

Thy silver Eastern strands,

Thy Golden Gate that stands

Fronting the West;

Thy flowery Southland fair,

Thy North's sweet, crystal air:

O Land beyond compare,

We love thee best!

Bait-bait Abolitionisme tambahan oleh A. G. Duncan, 1843:

8

My country, 'tis of thee,

Stronghold of slavery, of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Where men man’s rights deride,

From every mountainside thy deeds shall ring!

9

My native country, thee,

Where all men are born free, if white’s their skin;

I love thy hills and dales,

Thy mounts and pleasant vales;

But hate thy negro sales, as foulest sin.

10

Let wailing swell the breeze,

And ring from all the trees the black man’s wrong;

Let every tongue awake;

Let bond and free partake;

Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

11

Our father’s God! to thee,

Author of Liberty, to thee we sing;

Soon may our land be bright,

With holy freedom’s right,

Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.

12

It comes, the joyful day,

When tyranny’s proud sway, stern as the grave,

Shall to the ground be hurl’d,

And freedom’s flag, unfurl’d,

Shall wave throughout the world, O’er every slave.

13

Trump of glad jubilee!

Echo o’er land and sea freedom for all.

Let the glad tidings fly,

And every tribe reply,

“Glory to God on high,” at Slavery’s fall.

Penampilan populer

Alec Benjamin menyanyikan dua baris pertama dari lagu tersebut dalam lagunya yang berjudul "1994".

Lihat pula

• God Save the Queen
• Heil dir im Siegerkranz
• Kongesangen
• Oben am jungen Rhein
• Molitva Russkikh
• Rufst du, mein Vaterland

Daftar pustaka

• Collins, Ace (2003). Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource. ISBN 0060513047. 
• Music, David M.; Richardson, Paul A. (2008). I Will Sing the Wondrous Story: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. ISBN 0865549486. 

Pranala luar

• Page about the song at the Library of Congress, with scans, etc.
• Public Domain version of the sheet music in multiple formats for viewing, printing, editing, etc. – (from the Choral Public Domain Library)
• Review of a book about the song from the Journal of American History
• CyberHymnal – contains history, lyrics, and infinitely-looping MIDI music.
•  "America. The American national hymn". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.