Our patriotic concert is coming up soon on September 19th! Our students are getting excited to perform for family and friends.
It's important for students to know the lyrics of each song, so I will be sending home a sheet next week with those words. In the meantime, if you would like to print them off and help your student get a head start, here they are.
Song: Let's Sing, America!
There is a country full of dignity and life!
There is a country born of freedom, born of strife.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
There is a nation in a land of liberty.
There is a nation where the people all live free.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
America! America! The red, the white, the blue!
America! America! I sing this song for all of you!
I love my country, so I'll proudly take my stand.
I love my country, so I'll sing throughout the land.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
Of thee I sing! Of thee I sing!
Of thee I sing, America.
America, America!
Song: The Star-Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Song: Let's Sing, America!
She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes (Yee ha!)
She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes (Yee ha!)
She'll be comin' 'round the mountain, she'll be comin' 'round the mountain,
She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes (Yee ha!)
You're a grand old flag, you're a high flying flag,
and forever in peace may you wave;
You're the emblem of the land I love,
the home of the free and the brave.
Every heart beats true 'neath the red, white, and blue,
where there's never a boast or brag;
But should auld acquaintance be forgot, keep your eye on the grand old flag!
Oh when the saints go marching in,
Oh when the saints go marching in,
Oh, how I want to be in that number,
Oh when the saints go marching in!
Song: America Goes West
Let tyrants shake their iron rod
and slavery clank her galling chains
We fear them not, we trust in God,
New England's God forever reigns.
Lay down boys and take a little nap,
fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap.
Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap,
Way down yonder in the Cumberland Gap.
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark, fare thee well, I'm gone.
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark, good-bye I'm gone.
We've formed our band, we are all well-manned to journey afar to the promised land.
The golden ore is rich in store on the banks of the Sacramento shore.
Then ho, boys, ho!
To California go!
There's plenty of gold in the world I'm told on the banks of the Sacramento shore.
(Westward ho!)
Song: We Remember
There was a day when freedom's light seemed very far away.
There was a day that looked like night; we dreamed of yesterday.
But even when the day is dark and rainbows hard to see
Heroes walk among us and people still live free, we still live free.
We remember the day we all stood strong.
We remember when we were one in song.
We remember, remember.
There was a day when Americans chose to take a stand.
There was a day when the best of friends offered us their hand.
The world can still be beautiful, but even when it's gray
the sun will shine upon us and warm our tears away. And so we say,
We remember the day we all stood strong.
We remember when we were one in song.
We remember, remember.
We remember, remember.
Song: The Spirit of America
This great country, this great land, all together now we stand.
Proud and strong, straight and tall; Americans, one and all!
Every dreamer 'neath the sun shares one hope for everyone
All live free, great and small; Americans, one and all!
The spirit of America!
The spirit of America!
The spirit of America is alive in me!
The spirit of America!
The spirit of America!
The spirit of America, America, is alive in me!
